Epanalepsis lets you glimpse the lives of three different people across various years: they all encounter the same man in red, said man is trying to warn them about the choices they're going to make and how they might affect the future.
The game that follows is more of a slightly interactive story than anything else, you'll walk around, look at objects, pick a few of them up and be faced with a choice for each character: the gameplay is thin and the story is sadly way too cryptic to make up for it.

PROS:

-nice soundtrack

-some interesting dialogues

-what few glimpses you get of the overall story, and their implications, are pretty intriguing

CONS:

-very basic graphics, little in the way of animations

-lack of actual gameplay

-walking speed is too slow

-the white text often gets lost whenever it appears on a light background

-way, way too vague in its narrative to be actually engaging, you're left wondering what happened, why and how your choices affected the endings you get

-very short, I was done in an hour

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=532042963

I like "artsy" and daring games, as you can see from my reviews, but Epanalepsis totally missed the mark for me: the gameplay is way too basic but that'd be excusable if the story had gotten to me.
Sadly said story was way too vague for me to find it interesting, some references and bits of info were intriguing but that's all there was: the disconnection between each character I controlled, despite the fact they all seem to be involved in what's happening, and dialogues that dealt with things and names that were barely explained, if at all, left me disappointed.

In the end I felt as if the game was being so vague, to the point of coming out as obtuse, just for the sake of it rather than doing it in an attempt to challenge my mind: I simply lacked enough info to be challenged. Despite getting it on sale for around 3,50$ I still felt it was a tad too overpriced for what it does: I can't recommend it but who knows, perhaps you'll have better luck with it.

Epanalepsis lets you glimpse the lives of three different people across various years: they all encounter the same man in red, said man is trying to warn them about the choices they're going to make and how they might affect the future. The game that follows is more of a slightly interactive story than anything else, you'll walk around, look at objects, pick a few of them up and be faced with a choice for each character: the gameplay is thin and the story is sadly way too cryptic to make up for it. [b]PROS:[/b] -nice soundtrack -some interesting dialogues -what few glimpses you get of the overall story, and their implications, are pretty intriguing [b]CONS:[/b] -very basic graphics, little in the way of animations -lack of actual gameplay -walking speed is too slow -the white text often gets lost whenever it appears on a light background -way, way too vague in its narrative to be actually engaging, you're left wondering what happened, why and how your choices affected the endings you get -very short, I was done in an hour http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=532042963 I like "artsy" and daring games, as you can see from my reviews, but Epanalepsis totally missed the mark for me: the gameplay is way too basic but that'd be excusable if the story had gotten to me. Sadly said story was way too vague for me to find it interesting, some references and bits of info were intriguing but that's all there was: the disconnection between each character I controlled, despite the fact they all seem to be involved in what's happening, and dialogues that dealt with things and names that were barely explained, if at all, left me disappointed. In the end I felt as if the game was being so vague, to the point of coming out as obtuse, just for the sake of it rather than doing it in an attempt to challenge my mind: I simply lacked enough info to be challenged. Despite getting it on sale for around 3,50$ I still felt it was a tad too overpriced for what it does: I can't recommend it but who knows, perhaps you'll have better luck with it.