Slender Threads
Slender Threads
Play it on: Windows (Steam Deck N/A)
Properly good point-and-click adventures are few and far between, with 2024 being a bit of a stark drought for the genre. 2025 is looking better already, especially with today’s release of Slender Threads. I’m still less than halfway through (by my own guess), but this is already a stand-out game. That’s in no small part thanks to the stunning voice acting and solid writing, but it’s also via the way the game has already twice had my jaw hanging slack in shock at specific moments. This is a bright, breezy, even silly game, with the sorts of inventory-combining nonsense you’d expect from a cartoonish point-and-click game, right up until it isn’t. And wow, those moments are effective.
I don’t yet know exactly where it’s going with them, but I have my suspicions, and I can’t wait to find out. — John Walker
