Pentiment

Pentiment is Obsidian Entertainment's most uniquely personal game — a narrative adventure set in sixteenth-century Bavaria that unfolds like an illuminated manuscript come to life, with art that mimics the woodcuts and marginalia of the period with stunning fidelity. Playing as Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist and intellectual living in a Bavarian monastery, you become embroiled in a series of murders across twenty-five years, making choices about who to accuse that you will live with across the full span of the story. Pentiment is not an action game, not a puzzle game, not really a mystery game in the traditional sense — it is a richly researched historical experience that trusts its players to find meaning in ambiguity and consequence in choice. Director Josh Sawyer's passion for the period is evident in every dialogue exchange, every illuminated border, every character whose life you touch and affect. A small masterpiece.