Slender Threads
Not only is Slender Threads a splendid point-and-click adventure game, with top-notch art and voice acting as well as great puzzles, but it’s also the most extraordinary meta-exploration of the form, yet without any of that tedious knowing winking that often plagues games committed to such commentary.
Harvey Green is a wannabe writer and door-to-door book salesman, living in an ambiguous era, having just arrived in an anonymous small American town. Things are…eerie here, but it’s not until you solve a fairly standard bizarro point-and-click puzzle—dressing up a mannequin to put into a busy road crossing to try to distract a policeman—that the real nature of Slender Threads begins to reveal itself. And no, I shall not spoil it here. Let’s just say it explores the notion of the amoral central character.
It’s also, crucially, a really good adventure game at the same time. A really fantastic find. — John Walker
