Between Us: Reckoning

Laura is a journalist who gets pulled into a string of brutal killings that trace straight back to her own past. The overview plays it as a mystery-thriller, not a joke, and every choice you make is supposed to push her fate one way or another before the killer catches up to the truth first.

The plot centers on Laura piecing together buried secrets while the body count climbs, with her personal history turning out to be more tangled in the case than she'd like. It's framed as a race against time as much as a whodunit.

You move Laura through a point-and-click sandbox, picking where to go and who to talk to as clues surface, with the investigation doubling as an excuse to get closer to the people around her. The murder plot is the spine of the game; everything else builds off it.