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Emerald Echoes Game Review

You know, this wasn’t quite what I expected.

Emerald Echoes is sold as a sequel to PostCurious’s excellent The Emerald Flame, which is a 6-8 hour epic divided into three chapters. Each chapter presents as an envelope packed full of documents and ephemera. It’s up to the players to discern how everything is related, to figure out what the puzzles are and how they connect.

The Emerald Flame is excellent, but it holds your hand so little that it can be overwhelming. Everyone wants to feel like an investigator sorting through reams of documents and coming out the other side with an answer, but not everyone wants to actually sort through reams of documents.

Enter Emerald Echoes.

Four oversized envelopes, each containing a portion of the game.

For Platformers

Emerald Echoes picks up where The Emerald Flame left off, with a pair of modern-day academics trying to piece together a story that happened hundreds of years ago. It too is divided into chapters—four this time—but each of those chapters is subdivided into carefully sequenced folders. Each contains some amount of documentation that advances the story, and succinctly directs you towards which components you need to concern yourself with now.

The upside to this is enormous, depending on your preferences: You…

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