Tis the season of goodwill, after all.

Truth is, I just really liked Monster Prom 3.

Personally, Roadtrip has overtaken the first game to become my favourite in the series.

A composite image in thirds, each part of a screenshot from, l-r: The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me; Monster Prom: Monster Roadtrip; The Past Within

There’s more puzzle solving and free-roaming exploration, alongside a wider variety of button-mashing activities at intense moments.

RIP Kate, sorry I failed so hard at “protecting you at all costs”.

Do it without screen-cheating and it’s a satisfying couple of hours of good communication and cooperative puzzle solving.

A hitchhiking Miranda serenades Polly and Scott in Monster Roadtrip. She’s trying to convince them to let her navigate with a rendition of “A Whole New World” re-written to be about herself (and calling them peasants). Polly and Scott look suitably confused.

In Monster Prom 3, Polly channels the ghosts from A Christmas Carol with her own version “the ghost of you done fucked up”.

The five player characters from The Devil In Me sit tensely around a dimly-lit dinner table drinking red wine (left to right: Jamie, Erin, Charlie, Mark, and Kate).

Jessie Buckley as Kate Wilder in The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me. In the background of the shot, a Supermassive house model portrays an actor playing H.H. Holmes in Kate’s documentary series.

Indie horror The Past Within is the first co-op and 3D entry in the Rusty Lake series, out on November 2nd, 2022.

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