Unheard - Voices of Crime
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Distressing crimes — theft, kidnapping and murder, with named characters dying — drive the plots the player investigates.
Characters use moderate profanity in the recorded conversations that the player replays.
The cases center on crimes such as murder, but harm is conveyed through overheard audio and abstract top-down figures rather than any graphic on-screen injury.
Characters are heard taking cigarette smoke breaks during scenes; smoking is incidental to the setting rather than a mechanic.
Crimes including murder, theft and kidnapping are the subject of every case; the player investigates them after the fact and never commits a crime.
Some cases involve adult relationships and affairs referred to in the spoken dialogue; nothing sexual is shown.
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What it is
Unheard - Voices of Crime is a single-player detective puzzle game in which you use a device that replays the sounds recorded at past crime scenes. Each location is shown as a top-down floor plan with moving figures, and you scrub back and forth through overlapping conversations to work out which voice belongs to whom and how the case fits together. The cases turn on crimes such as murder, theft and kidnapping, and the adult-voiced dialogue explores the darker motives behind them, with occasional moderate profanity and passing references to drinking and smoking. There is no graphic on-screen violence, sexual content or gore — events are conveyed through what you overhear rather than what you see.
How it's framed
The game frames the player as an investigator reconstructing crimes after they happen rather than taking part in them, so wrongdoing is something to be understood and identified, not carried out. Its overarching story foregrounds the power of the audio-replay device and the reach of listening in on private conversations.
Details
- Developer
- NEXT Studios
- Publisher
- NEXT Studios
- Released
- Mar 28, 2019
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