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Most modern games can no longer afford to think one-dimensionly. It’s not enough to have a princess trapped in a castle with a giant lizard king; nowadays it’s about creating something complex, meaningful and different. That’s why indie games like Braid, Limbo and even Amnesia: The Dark Descent (as horror-inducing as that game is) have been growing in popularity, because they challenge how we think and how we play.
The Silent Age: Episode One is one of these games.
The Silent Age is the first game from Denmark-based indie gaming company House On Fire. It’s an episodic series that’s being funded directly by user donations, and so far only the first episode has been released.
The first episode introduces the main character, Joe, a literal Joe Average who served in the Vietnam War and now works as a janitor in a secret government building during 1972. When…
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