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Beckett by The Secret Experiment is a surreal noir. A disturbing story of a missing-persons investigator, hired to find a young man suffering from a mental illness. It is a taste of the alternative - an experience that will make you question what it is to exist. It is a vivid musing on identity, memory and loss. It is unlike anything you will ever play. It wants to offend. Don't let it. Poor, poor Beckett.
WHAT IS IT? Dark, disturbing, unsettling - Beckett is a powerful narrative adventure game that gets under your skin and makes you question everything about yourself and the very nature of reality.
The game is a single-player, point-and-click style experience that lasts around 3 hours. But it will be in your head for a long time after.
WHY WE MADE IT We made Beckett as a story that could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the best of literature, theatre and independent world cinema. It won the Games category in the 2018 BAFTA Scotland awards, made various game-of-the-year lists (2018) and was made part of V&A Dundee's permanent gallery collection.
You could call it a psychological horror. You could call it an anti-love story. You could call it a surrealist nightmare. Beckett is a disturbing, unique experience that will make you question what it is to exist.
The game puts reality under the spotlight, drawing you into a missing person's case set in a dark and unforgiving world. Our main character, Beckett, morns the loss of his wife - she was everything to him, but time has passed and life has lost meaning. Then there's the City, which plays with Beckett like cat with a baby bird, making him act against his will. You must take control, explore, navigate, interact, talk, defy... we're all memories waiting to happen, we're all memories waiting to fade.
"A rare example of total and genuine auteurism in the games world" - Glixel, Rolling Stone
"convincingly uncompromised" - Alphr
"Beckett impresses at every turn." - Cubed3
*"A powerful experience for those willing to dive into it." - Big Boss Battle.
*"The decisions that the game-player makes cause the story to squirm under the influence of the choices they make." - 3AM Magazine
*"Always intriguing and defies the tried-and-true structure we’ve come to expect from adventure games." - Game Bias
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