Welcome to this week’s installment of F2P Friday, where we highlight our favorite Free-to-Play games. The video game market is oversaturated, and sometimes, hidden gems fall through the cracks. This is where we dig for you and feature a new F2P game we know you will enjoy every week. This week, we explore the mysterious, rural backwoods of the fictitious Port Gillain in a modern narrative adventure game titled The Second Sight.
CONTENT WARNING: This story contains sexually suggestive material, violence, talk of abductions and abuse, and mature language that may be disturbing to some people.
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The Second Sight
You’re an urban legend in a small town full of weird happenings. Found alone when you were thirteen, you were found passed out on the road by a local cop who became your father figure. No missing persons report. No fingerprints on file. No memories. Just a name. Oh, and some bizarre psychic powers.
You’re content with simplicity. You like your isolated cabin and helping Carter, the man who found you, track down missing persons. You know that in theory, there are more people like you out there, but you’ve never wanted to look behind the curtain to find out. However, with the disappearance of a local teen named Casey Powell and a recent attempt on your foster father’s life, your serene, isolated life comes abruptly to an end and a new chapter begins.
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The Basics
Let’s get down to the basics of The Second Sight by creator spoiledsweet. At the core, The Second Sight is an interactive narrative fiction game with an urban fantasy setting. Prepare yourself to grapple with the unknown and step into the shoes of (Val), a psychic whose strange powers have always separated them from others. Those same powers will drag you down the rabbit hole and into a world that is both familiar and foreign to everything you know. A world filled with magic, witches, fae, demons, and the unknown.
The controls for this are as simple as clicking options that allow you to immerse yourself in the story by customizing your protagonist’s general appearance, choosing how they interact with others and whether you lean on logic or intuition to problem solve. You can check your stats and choices in the menu on the side to see how the dialogue choices affect your file. While you can play this game in the browser, the size formatting isn’t recommended for mobile play.
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Why Should I Play?
So why should you play The Second Sight? Narrative-adventure games like this live or die on the quality of the writing and the writing for The Second Sight is phenomenal. Creator spoiledsweet does a fantastic job of worldbuilding, creating tension and providing impactful choices that make the story feel unique to each playthrough. The flexible, customizable nature of the story means there isn’t much art in the game, making it more like an electronic choose-your-own-adventure novel, but I didn’t miss it much.
Play the first chapter of The Second Sight for free in the browser on Itch.io here. As of the writing of this article, there are 7 chapters available with frequent updates from the author and promises of more to come.
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