Next of Kin: Epiphany hides a serial killer in a snowy 16-bit town
The trilogy's finale pairs a cosy top-down town with a twenty-year murder case and a notebook built for catching people in a lie.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
A man in a dark coat and hat stands with his back to us, looking up a burning hillside at a silhouette holding a blade above its head. That is the cover art for Next of Kin: Epiphany, the final part of Spelkväll Games' Next of Kin trilogy, and it is a good deal grimmer than the game sitting behind it looks. A Christmas card with a murderer in it The in-game screenshots are a different animal. Dennis Monroe, the private detective you play, is a small top-down sprite in a brown hat, standing in a snowed-in town of frosted blue trees, iron lamp posts, a red telephone box and a Christmas tree w...