A Bone To Pick
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Ribsy is a skeleton, brought to life by the capricious Skeleton God. The Skeleton God is bored, and so he's set Ribsy a task- figure out who killed the pirate Captain who once owned Ribsy's bones.
Gather evidence. Talk to four suspicious crew members and one undead parrot. Play the accordion.
Solve the case and walk away a free skeleton... or fail, and spend the rest of eternity holding a gym bag in Davy Jones' Locker!
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This was a fun little mystery. The writing is funny and the characters feel very distinct and memorable. Lots of fun touches like the skeleton parrot. And I actually really enjoy a breezy, sketchy art style. And I do appreciate having extra health so that it's not an instant game over if you choose the wrong clue.
The thing I'm not a huge fan of (and I know that similar games like Paradise Killer also do this) is that if you don't find all the clues, it softlocks the game at the end. It might be nice to either a) warn you "are you sure you want to continue, you don't have all the clues yet" or b) allow you to leave the end scene and go look around the ship some more.