![]() On the bright side, this actually helped encourage me to go back and look for secrets myself since it wouldn’t take up much of my time. When I went back to replay it for the secrets and extra achievements, it added an extra half hour. Also, the episode is extremely short – it only took me about an hour to complete my first playthrough. ![]() I did run into a few glitches, one of which made the game totally unplayable on my primary PC (though this was most likely an issue on my end since I have found no one else who experienced a similar occurrence). This supports the game’s mysterious atmosphere. All of these past events are only ever implied, never directly explained (there needs to be at least a few subplots saved for future episodes, after all). The game introduces you to other characters with their own seemingly troubled histories. The game begins with an unsettling dream sequence and it soon becomes clear that Sal has experienced an extremely traumatic event in his past. The gameplay is very simple: walk across the screen and interact with things in the environment. (It makes me think of the YouTube series “Salad Fingers.”) Nearly everything about this game is designed to make you uncomfortable. The art style is unique – very cartoony in a slightly grotesque way. Its music doesn’t sound “bad,” but it supports the overall tone in that everything feels…off. ![]() One of the neighbors is obsessed with a toy line (one that is clearly intended to represent a certain franchise targeted toward young girls but is infamously successful with men). The apartment building he and his father have just moved into may or may not be haunted. The titular Sally Face, or Sal, wears his blue hair in pigtails and wears a prosthetic face mask for an unknown reason. To say that the game is bizarre would be an understatement. “A dark adventure about a boy with a prosthetic face and a mysterious past.” That is Steam’s synopsis for Sally Face by developer Steve Gabry, a new 2D side-scrolling episodic game, and much like the game’s first episode itself, it leaves you with more questions than answers.
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