But there was one game that stood out to me as something really quite special.

Like Friday Monsters, TheKidsWe Were is more of an interactive 3D visual novel than anything else.

The mysteries themselves are classic kids detective club stuff.

Four voxel children stand outside a Japanese bathhouse in The Kids We Were

That’s not to say the mysteries here are unsatisfying.

Alas, the process of actually untangling fact from fiction in The Kids We Were is altogether more restrained.

The town itself also doesn’t possess quite the same sense of place as Friday Monsters.

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Still, when the story is this earnest, it feels churlish to berate it too harshly.

I want to consume and absorb them into my consciousness as soon as possible).

A small voxel child stands on an old Japanese street in The Kids We Were

A screen describing seasoned seaweed in The Kids We Were

An old man tells two young kids to bring him some booze outside a supermarket in The Kids We Were