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Filed to:charles holden Screenshot: Variable State / Annapurna Interactive To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. You’d think a game featuring mysterious green magic swirling in the London underground would be all about weird stuff. But Last Stop — at least from what I’ve seen of it so far — is first and foremost a game about people. Last Stop is the latest from Variable State...

Last Stop Is A Truly Cinematic Experience That Uses its Camera In Clever Ways Developer Variable State has pulled a 180 with Last Stop, which is structured very differently to the studio's debut game, Virginia. GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. I'm a little surprised by just how cinematic Last Stop is. Developer Variable State wrestles the camera away from the player to frame every scene in different ways. Much like Silent Hill or The Medium, this is sometimes utilized to achieve a disturbing voyeuristic effect, but as Last Stop is a supernatural adventure game and not horror,...

Getting through hard Thames.  22 April 2021 What's Last Stop about? After playing the first few chapters, I'm still not entirely sure - but that's probably the point. An adventure game in which the plot slowly unfolds through three interconnected stories, it's initially a slow burner, yet the characters and cliffhangers introduced with each chapter have me completely intrigued - and I'm itching to know how each of them gets resolved. Made by Variable State and published by Annapurna Interactive, Last Stop is a single-player adventure game releasing on PC, Xbox,...

I'm a big fan of narrative-based adventure games, especially when there's a twist to the concept. The team at Variable State has brought together some interesting new characters, but more interesting is the way the game is presented. We took an early look at one of the many games coming this year from publisher Annapurna Interactive. Last Stop starts off like something out of Black Mirror or The Twilight Zone. A pair of unknown figures are looking to escape police on foot by cutting across a subway station. A mysterious stranger waits nearby and urges them to run through the door next to him....

April 21, 2021 8:00am by Trilby Beresford Courtesy of Annapurna Interactive British studio Variable State opens up about its chapter-based, dialogue-driven game that features overlapping stories with a supernatural twist. The Independent Gamer is a curated roundup of news from indie gaming, landing here every other Friday. British game studio Variable State teased its upcoming chapter-based narrative adventure  Last Stop during a press demo, describing the game as a dialogue-heavy "anthology story," with points of reference, at least in terms of structure, being films like Magnolia or Hea...