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Her Story

A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

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Very Positive (51) - 90% of the 51 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.

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Very Positive (7,383) - 89% of the 7,383 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Jun 24, 2015

Developer:

Sam Barlow

Publisher:

Sam Barlow

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Recommended

By Grand Circus di Pazliacci June 6, 2023

“video games featuring really bad search engines.”

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Steam Trading Cards

Languages:

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔	✔
Japanese	✔		✔

Includes 13 Steam Achievements

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Title: Her Story
Genre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation

Developer: Sam Barlow

Publisher: Sam Barlow

Franchise: Sam Barlow

Release Date: Jun 24, 2015

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Awards

IGF 2016

-Seumas McNally Grand Prize
-Excellence in Narrative

BAFTA 2016

-Game Innovation
-Debut Game
-Mobile & Handheld

IndieCade 2015

-Grand Jury Award

The Game Awards

-Best Narrative
-Best Performance

Golden Joysticks 2015

-Breakthrough Award

16th Annual GDC Awards

-Innovation Award
-Best Narrative
-Best Handheld/Mobile

Develop Awards 2016

-Use of Narrative
-Micro Studio
-New Games IP – PC/console

Geneva International Film Festival

-Reflet d’Or for Best Transmedia Project

Ars Independent Festival

-Special Distinction

12th IMGA

-Grand Prix
-Excellence in Innovation
-Excellence in Storytelling

SXSW Gaming Awards 2016

-Best Mobile Game

Emotional Game Awards 2016

-Best Emotional Mobile & Handheld

Webby Awards 2016

-Best Mobile Game

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Reviews

“As well as being a superb detective game, Her Story might be the best FMV game ever made.”
RPS Recommended – Rock Paper Shotgun

“Her Story has all the drama and intrigue of the best TV crime shows, but plays to the interactive strengths of the medium in a daring, imaginative way, trusting you to make sense of the scattered jigsaw pieces at your own pace. It’s her story, but it’s also your story. The murder mystery is as old as popular fiction itself, and territory video games have covered before, but I’ve never experienced one quite like this.”
90, Editor's Choice – PC Gamer

“Movies can’t dream of offering audiences a narrative structure as intimate and involving as this: they’re just moving pictures. Her Story points to the future.”
5/5 – The Guardian

About This Game

A Video Game About a Woman Talking to the Police

Her Story is the award winning video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. A crime fiction game with non-linear storytelling, Her Story revolves around a police database full of live action video footage. It stars Viva Seifert, actress and one half of the band Joe Gideon and the Shark.

How does it work?

Her Story sits you in front of a mothballed desktop computer that’s logged into a police database of video footage. The footage covers seven interviews from 1994 in which a British woman is interviewed about her missing husband. Explore the database by typing search terms, watch the clips where she speaks those words and piece together her story.

Unlike anything you've played before, Her Story is an involving and moving experience. A game that asks you to listen.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Verbal description of sex acts, violence and homicide. Some profanity.

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

Minimum:

OS *: Windows XP+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 512MB
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 2 GB available space

Recommended:

OS *: Windows 7+
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB
Storage: 2 GB available space

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

Minimum:

OS: OSX 10.8+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 512MB
Storage: 2 GB available space

Recommended:

OS: OSX 10.8+
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB
Storage: 2 GB available space

(C) Sam Barlow 2015

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