While it is imperative for some reason that the fire does indeed happen, it is just as important that all six occupants live. To save a present that has been rendered apocalyptic by time travel itself, you are part of a team who go back and change tiny things in the past to fix it, in this case 2015. This is all by way of introduction to Eternal Threads, a puzzle game where you go back in time to stop everyone in a house share dying in a fire. My favourite episodes of Doctor Who, by contrast, were always the ones where the Doctor met a miserable dog-alien thousands of years in the future, and the dog alien is like "Not only is the planet about to blow, but my marriage is in trouble," and then the episode was mostly about the latter issue rather than the former. A killer robot is trying to kill a lady because of something her son will eventually do, that kind of thing. Time travel stories can have pretty high stakes, because usually you only travel in time when you really need to change something. It can be messy, and you'll run into walls of frustration, but if you can get over these hurdles, this is a fun kitchen-sink-drama-meets-sudoku. Some new objects will appear, others will move around the house and the contents of rooms can change substantially as you change the past.Eternal Threads is like if Return Of The Obra Dinn was a time-travel soap opera. In addition, as you manipulate the past, the environment can be reset around you to match the changes taking place. As you look back through the timeline, past events play out in front of you in ghostly form, with the smoke and fire damaged house a constant reminder of what is to come. Setting up temporary base in the house mere hours after the fire, provides a unique perspective on events. Just pop back along the timeline and watch and change whatever you like, whenever you like, as many times as you like. Or maybe you're old school and just want to watch things in good-old chronological order? You can do that as well.Ĭan't remember exactly what happened in an event? Changed a decision and you're not sure you like the consequences? That's fine. Want to watch the whole thing like 'Memento', with the final event first and then moving back in time to see what caused it afterwards? That's okay too. Want to follow each of the six characters' stories 'Pulp Fiction' style? That's fine. Will you just search for the quickest and easiest solution, or can you find the best possible outcome for everyone? Each of them can be saved from the fire in multiple ways, with each outcome having a profound effect on their lives in the future. However, it is not just the housemates who have choices. You must traverse up and down this timeline, changing decisions at different moments throughout the week so that their effects interact and combine together to save all six housemates. Major changes however, rewrite the timeline by changing existing events, adding new events and even replacing other events entirely. Some decisions will have only minor effects on the timeline, moving objects around the house or revealing deeper stories and secrets. You can watch and alter the significant events from the entire week as many times as you like and in whatever order you wish. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event.įrom the outset, you have free and complete reign to explore the seven day timeline before the fire. Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.Īs an operative tasked with fixing corruption in the timestream, you have been sent to the North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire.
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