Gray Skies, Dark Waters

I really did not know what to expect from this game, when I first bought it and started playing it. It was more than I expected. I honestly enjoyed this interactive VN/point & click adventure. Much more than I expected to, especially with it being the first game from an unknown Indie studio. Yes, the facial animations were a bit rough, as were many other small things. Some of the VO's were a bit "off", with some obvious mic echo, or variation in sound levels. But for a game made in Unity Personal, by new devs, animators and artists, just learning the ropes... I was easily able to look past the small flaws, and enjoy the sparkly gem hiding underneath. The story actually was quite good, deeper, and touching on more serious and important things than I expected. Like the interpersonal realtionships in a broken family, mental heath challenges hidden for many years, the apparent burden of a daughter, who had to become a surrogate mother to her siblings, in a short period of time. I do ...

Just finished my intial play through of GSDW, the debut title from Green Willow Games. A fanciful yet grounded tale with attractive visuals and a quick playthrough time, good for a pick up evening of gaming. I look forward to exploring some of the other choices in the future!

A charming, albeit a bit short game that definitly deservers more recognition. The voice recordings sometimes sound a bit off, but that's probably because it was a low budget production. The drawings, music and story are beautiful. Well done :)

if you dont want to read the review I will link my video at the end Grey skies, dark waters A game whose backgrounds are beautifully drawn. Where it feels like your walking through impressive drawings that are real enough to make you feel that you are in a world but not completely realistic. It is the main strength of this piece of work but just as a symphony needs all its pieces together to be perfect so does a game and unfortunately not all the pieces play together to make that perfect symphony. It is the characters where the first few pieces fall apart. They aren’t drawn like the background they are rendered with computers with eyes so dead that you would be staring into and abyss rather than eyes. It’s a shame that the characters stick out like a Picasso between ancient Greek architecture. The character dialogue is overall well written and makes you feel for the characters in this tale but where is most stories you see the characters grow over time here you only get to know ...

I loved this game. It's completely story-driven, but your choices affect what happens in the story. It has a very interesting mystery that you must unravel, and the solution to the mystery is something unique and original. Additionally, the beautiful music and artwork really drew me in and had me playing for hours without realizing it. Such a beautiful story and game. Would highly recommend.

Gray Skies, Dark Waters tells an interesting story shaped by some of your choices about myths and mental health. Dialogues recording are uneven and could use some polish but hey, it's an indie game. Give it some love.

This is a well-fleshed out story game that presents a thoughtful, multi-dimensional picture of loss through the eyes of a family. The 2D art is consistenly beautiful, moody and engrossing, which makes up for some rough 3D character models. The music is likewise very good, adding a dark-folk tinge to the environment. But my favorite thing about the game would have to be how the dialogue - internal and external - interacts with this environment. Visually, the game's a bit doom-and-gloom, with grey dominating the landscape (this is adressed point blank by several characters). The muted watercolor-esque art conveys this without sacrificing clarity. And yet, the dialogue shifts between humor and gravity quite freely. The conflict between the environment and the humor really parallel my experience with grief - everyone tries to act like things are normal, but when levity enters into that equation, it throws everything off and makes us question how we're supposed to balance our joy and our so...

[b]I hear a lark, The woods are dark, I put my fingers on the bark. I like these trees, They're near the sea, I like the way they set me free. I ask them why, I sometimes cry, When the silver moon is in the sky. But they don't say, They never say, And so I always go away.[/b] I love story driven games, and this one was set in a fictional small town in Virginia known as Avett's Landing. The game even reminded me of Life is Strange at times, especially as it went on to uncover more details to add to the story. Visually the game is great, nothing mind-blowing but that's because every scene is a hand-drawn painting like you'd expect from your kids' book illustrations, which really add to the overall theme of the game. Nothing but the character in the game are something that moves, everything else is just still in a painting, so I'd suggest seeing gameplay of couple minutes before picking it up. To me, I didn't even know it was going to be like that when I bought it since I went in bli...

Wow, I just realised that it only has 20 reviews. Play this thing if you like point & clicky games and walking sims that actually have story. It's a perfect autumn melancholy game.

I tend to have a love for games that are or have scenes that are quiet and contemplative where you just hang around and interact with the cast to learn more about them and/or explore and interact with things that has the protag reminisce about things and/or flesh out the characters and world as well. For example the home base stuff in the new Wolfensteins, a good chunk of Life is Strange, the hubs in Shadowruns Dragonfall and Hong Kong, and the last level of the PS2 horror game Rule of Rose. Lulls in the action like that can really lend themselves to nice character moments and really immerse me in the setting. Gray Skies, Dark Waters is just a whole game of those types of scenes, it's a somber, meditative game about a family dealing with the loss of a loved one under mysterious circumstances. The Garett family live in the fictional Virginian town of Avett's Landing on the Chesapeake. Their lives are irrevocably changed when the mother, Vivian, mysteriously disappears. The game begins ...