Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure

I purchased this game at launch, but I wasn't able to play the game until the 1.20 update. It was worth the wait! This definitely scratched my investigator itch. The story is solid, and the puzzles are just hard enough to keep your brain engaged without making your soul enraged. The solutions to each investigation seem obvious in hindsight, but you will have to make a few several solid educated guesses. The game rarely hands you the definitive answer even after you find all the evidence. Just like with Lacuna, it's easy to get invested in the world and the characters. I promise this is worth your time. Just buy it!

Good game for a bit of space detective work aboard a generation ship. Cases vary from easy to somewhat challenging. Beautiful graphics, good soundwork and a compelling story. And with a keyboard, you can play this game one-handedly!

Loved this game, great scifi mystery game. If you're looking for a quick but engaging scifi story this is it.

I liked the demo and bought the game. It gives me The Expanse vibes in the best way <3 The puzzles are right up my alley, not too challenging but not too easy. The fact the game autosaves and you can't roll it back means you have extra weight to making a decision (or you can chicken out like I did and verify your choices with a guide). The music is lovely, and I'm really glad to see a "point and click" detective story with the twist of IN SPACE! I am glad the devs made the game, I'd buy more games with this style and this type of story. On some of the cons: I found the camera movement during transitions and while sprinting induced my motion sickness, and with no setting to slow the camera, I had to drink ginger tea to settle myself before playing. I ran into an issue where the game froze in the middle of dialog (I could access the pause menu to change settings or go back to the title screen, but that's it). I decided to go back to the title screen, hoping the autosaving would have "saved" me. Surprisingly it didn't, and I lost a lot of progress! I'm not sure why it hadn't saved anything up until that point, but maybe something went wrong since I quit to the menu in the middle of dialog, and it had to fall back to the previous checkpoint. I think my workaround for the future will be to exit to the main menu / title screen right before dialog, to "force" the game to save. That way if something goes wrong during the dialog, in theory I shouldn't lose that much progress. All in all, I've been having a good time watching the story unfold. Update: I finished the story and side quests in 8 hours. I loved how it ended! Characters were well-developed and had good motivations. Many thanks to the folks who made guides on Steam and YouTube, they were critical.

A gorgeous sci-fi detective game with lots of philosophical and moral questions along the way. So hard to find good sci-fi that doesn't rehash the same thing done by dozens of other games. The puzzles are just hard enough to be challenging without me wanting to pull my hair out which I think strikes a nice balance. Definitely a bit of a hidden gem IMO.

Great stuff! Good story that keeps you engaged - and the actual case solving requires not only figuring out "who to talk to about what", but the actual solution requires connecting things on your own, without them being just presented to you if you "went everywhere and talked with everyone". I enjoyed it thoroughly!

There are not enough scifi adventure games out there, so I was really happy to find this title. I liked the story and the graphics and the writing was pretty smart. The ending... I was ambivalent. There so much more story and depth that could have been explored by using the existing assets, it would have made the game so much better and immersive. The relationships were superficial, so the emotional connection wasn't what it could have been. Yet, it is a game worth playing, and I recommend it. Hopefully next game....

This is another great game in the vein of Lacuna. You're solving a mystery comprised of other, smaller mysteries. The story is wonderfully portrayed, the retro-style artwork is beautiful, and the game is full of memorable characters and moments. I highly recommend both this game and their previous (unrelated) title, Lacuna. 10/10

In Between Horizons, you take on the roll of Stella, head of security on a colonial starship en route to a planet on a faraway star. You need to find clues and solve cases surrounding apparent sabotage in order to complete your mission and eventually bring humanity to a new world. I found the story in Between Horizons to be pretty good overall, but after a few hours, it becomes quite clear just how dreadful the gameplay is. You'll spend the majority of your time running around the ship, going into each and every room over and over hoping to find the right person to talk to or clue to provide. Sadly, even when you do find the right person, you'll be wading through dozens and dozens of meaningless clues hoping to click on the right one that moves the narrative forward and gives you the next clue. To make matters significantly worse, this game employs quite possibly the worst fast travel system ever invented. The map has roughly 30 different areas you can click on to fast travel to, and yet, you can fast travel to exactly zero of them. Instead of the area you choose, you'll be taken to one of the four nearest train stations, which is often farther away from your destination than where you started from. Why give the option to fast travel somewhere if you can't actually fast travel there? It's just a dumb design decision. Overall, I found Between Horizons to just be frustrating. I started and stopped numerous times and after about 80% of my blind play through; I went to a guide, simply because I couldn't be bothered anymore. There is a decent game here but it was compromised by aimless wandering, trial and error gameplay, and a terrible user interface.

Fantastic follow up to Lacuna. The 2.5D pixel art graphics are my jam, and the story is excellently told. Figure out whatever you'd be willing to pay to watch a great detective movie - then add in however much you'd pay to be the detective. Well worth it.

Never been so insecure before but somehow it worked. Great game

Engaging, fascinating story, which choices that have long term consequences.

It's good. :)