I had another game lined up for today but Gamestop blows so much. I bought the Callisto Protocol on Thursday of last week for pickup and it took them all the way until Wednesday to actually pick it and allow me to pick it up. Bought new, wasn’t new, and the disc was scratched. How did we ever let this happen? I never buy from Gamestop and rightfully so. In other news, I decided to play a horror mystery game this time. This week I play as an obsessed cop looking for a killer. This week is The Final Pin.

The Final Pin is a horror game from JordiBoi. The game is available for PC on Itcho.io for whatever price you feel is worth it.

“You wake up in a cold sweat, with an ominous feeling that he’s still out there.

You try to shake off the feeling, but the more you try to ignore it, the stronger it becomes.

Why do they call him the crow killer? And why do I feel like he’s watching me…“

The Final Pin is about a man who has spent his entire police career searching for the person dubbed the Crow Killer. Years have gone by without any leads and it has essentially destroyed your life, searching for so long without uncovering anything. The killer is back and you are dedicated to finishing it.

The Final Pin is a pretty standard walking sim with some investigative mini-games sprinkled in. The player will have to look around a small area to find some clues to forward the story. Some crime scenes are absolutely wild. One scene is you diving all the way to the bottom of the ocean (?) to open a concrete tomb to find a dead body. The gameplay is nothing spectacular, but it gets the job done to progress the story.

The Final Pin really excels with its atmosphere. The ambient sound when arriving at crime scenes and during flashbacks. The game does look like a PS1 game with the flat, smooth faces and terrible audio for the voice acting, but everything else is really good and kept me on edge for the majority of the playthrough.

The Final Pin is a fun, spooky video. It tells the story of a washed-up cop who faces the ultimate consequences for spending his career failing to find a serial killer. The kills are gruesome and they remind us of the lengths that people will go and how they have an effect on the public and the police. The Final Pin is an hour long and it never drags its feet for a second.