Whispering Willows
Young Elena Elkhorn embarks on a harrowing journey to find her missing father and discover the secrets of the Willows Mansion. Aiding her journey is a unique amulet, she received from her father, which allows…
Whispering Willows is an adventure developed by Night Light Interactive, released 17 May 2014 on Nintendo Switch, Ouya, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. It currently starts at $2.00 at GreenManGaming. The main story takes about 2 hrs to finish.
What Whispering Willows is
Whispering Willows is an adventure game developed by Night Light Interactive and released in 2014. It was published by Abstraction Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Ouya, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Young Elena Elkhorn sets out on a harrowing search for her missing father, John, whose disappearance draws her to the sprawling and long-abandoned Willows Mansion. To aid her, John has left behind a unique amulet that lets Elena astrally project her spirit into a ghostly realm, where she can slip through the world of the dead and speak with the restless souls who linger there. As she explores the mansion and its haunted grounds, Elena uncovers the tragic history binding the estate together, including its former master Wortham Willows, a mayor consumed by his desperate quest to revive his dead wife. Caught between the living and the dead, Elena must piece together the mansion's dark secrets…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Whispering Willows holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.00, that works out to about $1.00 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3rd Gen i3/AMD FX-4100 Series, 4 GB RAM and GeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.00 at GreenManGaming, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Whispering Willows launched on 17 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Transistor. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Whispering Willows yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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