The challenges you'll encounter in Oxenfree aren't all that difficult, but they almost entirely revolve around tuning to the right frequency on the radio to figure out. The radio is key part of Oxenfree's puzzle-solving, such as it is. It's not her fault she happened to be in charge of the radio at the time, but the beings that were awakened by her meddling don't seem to care. Unwittingly discovering this horrible truth could be dangerous for everyone involved, and it's up to Alex to try and set everything right again. Edwards Island isn't just a normal tourist attraction it's home to a secret a very small number of people have ever uncovered. What Alex and Jonas find in the cave sets off an evening of supernatural mystery. It's made all that more uncomfortable by the uneasy relationship between Clarissa and Alex, and the fact that no matter what, everyone is stuck here until the first ferry back to the mainland in the morning. What should have been a big bash at the beach to close out the school year ends up being an intimate and awkward affair. Out on the beach of Edwards Island, the trio meets up with Clarissa and Nona, Ren's crush, and finds that no one else was able to make the trip.
It's tradition, and Ren isn't one to ignore traditions, especially if he has a crush on a cute girl he knows is also going to be there. It's not been a great year for Alex, but she's agreed to go with her best friend Ren and her new step-brother Jonas to the beach to meet up with some other classmates. With a mystery that grows stranger and stronger the deeper you dive and characters that are instantly relatable, Night School Studio delivers a first effort that's spooky, sincere and enthralling. Oxenfree takes those elements and mixes them together to create a wild, dangerous night for a small group of friends. Maybe you had that house that was haunted, or a place in the woods where you could hear strange sounds under the perfect conditions. Every school also had its weird myths and rumors about the local area, too. Doing something dumb, like sneaking onto a closed beach, with your friends before you graduated is a time-honored tradition. Although, such is life.Every school had its weird class traditions or secret spots where teens gathered to socialize away from the rest of the world. That’s fine but sometimes seemingly trivial choices can have a fairly profound effect further down the line, and there’s no easy way to skip back or undo them.
The game is reticent to reveal exactly what effect your various dialogue choices have, although if you say something that particularly affects someone then Alex’s face will appear in a though bubble above them – the equivalent of Telltale’s ‘they’ll remember that’ line.
Alex’s best friend is verbal diarrhea sufferer Ren, and then there’s his crush the considerably more reserved Nona, bratty it girl Clarissa, and stepbrother Jonas. You play as Alex, who starts off the game as somewhat introverted but who through your dialogue choices can turn into everything from a loud-mouthed braggart to attentive friend, or even more of a recluse. It’s a great system that is perfectly complemented by the characters. Two or three dialogue options are usually busy floating above your head and you can select them at any time as the conversation progresses, choosing to interrupt, let others finish, or simply say nothing at all. Unlike the stop-start nature of most narrative games people are almost always talking, and will happily do so with or without your input. This is where many of the game’s most effective scares come from, but still the most interesting part is simply talking to people.
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