Oxenfree

We've had Into the Breach.

We've had Oxenfree 1 and 2.

We've had Immortality, even, the Sam Barlow game, which we very highly praised on the show a few years ago.

And, you know, it's great to be able to play horror games on your phone.

And so the game is basically you trying to escape.

A very straightforward premise, and I think that this is a great example of how the gimmick of using your phone as a controller for a bit more immersion into something that is... pretty routine, pretty straightforward, is exactly the types of experiences that I think they should be exploring.

It's great to be able to play, you know, Oxenfree 1 and 2 on my phone, but at the same time, if you're going to be going to these lengths to develop games for Netflix, then I want to see some of this type of originality.

So, Essentially, the experience is you using your phone as the protagonist's phone.

If you'll recall...

Netflix entered the gaming space, I believe, by buying the Oxenfree Studio.

That game was a great game.

Great coming-of-age point-and-click adventure, more or less.

So that's kinda...

Is, is it like a Bandersnatch, where it's, like, actual filmed, and then you're just kind of moving between different video clips, or is it a game, more like a, you know, Oxenfree? They have, uh, you know, actual, like, devs making video games.

I'm not too sure.

Like, it's, uh-

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Twenty-six.

So right when the crap starts to hit the fan, if you're following how I am laying out the history here, um, and they discuss all these different games that received funding or assistance of some kind from the idea Xbox program.

And just to rattle off the ones that they're most proud of, the ones that they're featuring on the cereal box, if you will, this would be Never Alone from 2014, Goat Simulator, Oxenfree, Cuphead, Untitled Goose Game.

And then there's a few others in there as well, right? So I think they also discuss quite a lot like Inside Limbo.

And even in this article, they...

And there are games that have managed to get around that.

I'm thinking of Oxenfree and the way that in the early bits of that, especially you have this kind of dynamic group conversation that you can not engage with, but it's actually valuable and rewarding.

But I cannot for the life of me pin down exactly why that works as well as it did.

Because it's unskippable.

It can still be melodic, but there's something broken and uneasy underneath it, where the strange rhythms and mechanical noises and various sounds from the environment start to become part of the music itself.

So tonight, we're going to listen to 23 tracks from games like Silent Hill 3, Lost in Vivo, Manhunt, 999, Oxenfree, Resident Evil 2, and plenty more.

I've collected and sequenced all of these tracks into a playlist designed to emulate the progression of a nightmarish game of our own.

This is the soundtrack to a horror game that doesn't exist.

So you still had really decent, you had a really decent cast for the game itself.

I mean, if you look at it, you know, Erin Yvette does Snow White and she was in Life is Strange, right? And then Oxenfree, she was in Oxenfree.

Sorry, she was in Oxenfree.

I don't know if she was in anything else.

She was in Tales from the Borderlands as well.

But yeah, Laura Bailey, of course.

Big name as well.

Yeah, Erin Yvette, she was Alex in Oxenfree.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

No, I've definitely thought about that and an Oxenfree tattoo.

Like, Oxenfree's, uh...

Yeah, the, the, the triangle, and the ghosts come out and then say, "Is leave possible?" I think that would be a cool tattoo.

RIP High School Studio.

Yeah, I know.

Uh, but yeah.

So Life is Strange, Oxenfree, those are the only games that I think about, like, getting tattoos of, you know?