When she encounters two dead animals in a grave, she notes, “Two lovers sleeping forever in a shared grave. Although she is a caregiver, Angie is no longer the sunniest of characters. While George’s regular caretaker is away, Angie must get to know George and his needs (they’re few, and they mainly involve watching TV and eating sandwiches), as well as explore the many-roomed farmhouse where he lives. As a result of receiving the devastating news of her own terminal illness shortly thereafter, Angie decides to take on one last job to provide support for an elderly man, George, who lives out in the bucolic countryside. The game stars Angie Weather, a caregiver who plays Florence Nightingale to a man she falls in love with before marrying him for the briefest of moments until he succumbs to cancer. By now, if you’re familiar with Michalski’s games The Cat Lady, Downfall and Lorelai (and if you haven’t played them, I highly recommend that you do so for their sheer entertainment value and not because they’re needed to understand this outing), that warning won’t deter you, and you’ll be eager to jump in and play.
Make no mistake: Burnhouse Lane is a very adult game it tells you in blood red colors that no one younger than 18 should be playing, and all-caps letters above a pair of disembodied eyes clearly warn of violence, nudity, and gore. In another horror knockout from Rem Michalski and team, this game has it all, from scares to gross-outs to adrenaline-pumping entertainment. Does it ever feel like human compassion and kindness seem to be in short supply? If you’ve given your life over in service of others, what would you do if you found out that you didn’t have much longer to live? Continue serving? Give up? Be selfish? In Harvester Games’ Burnhouse Lane, you’ll be presented with that choice over and over again, and under increasingly disturbing and dire circumstances.
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