Unveiling Conspiracies on “A Hand With Many Fingers” — Game Recommendation

The world’s smaller than it seems, if you know where to look.

Right there where important people meet, whether famous or not, the cogs of our reality continue turning and keeping reality together. Deals under the table, chance encounters, and terrible conspiracies are a greater part of our normality than we’d like to admit.

Of course, I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theorist. For one, I don’t have the ego for that. But there’s always a fascination there, an interest in everything that lurks beneath the mundane of our lives.

I’m not talking about monsters, though, silly as that would be. They’re not needed: Humans are more than capable of generating an endless sequence of intrigue and power struggles. As a Latin American, I know it firsthand.

Conspiracies are maybe the most common background for any game story, though. Sects, rogue militias, insurrectionists, there’s enough shadow-lurking and back-stabbing to go around.

It’s quite novel, however, when a game invites you to piece together a real conspiracy. They give you a conspiracy board and everything!

I’d rather not tell you what the game is about. Just looking up the case on Google might as well ruin the fun of joining the dots, since it’s all public info. If you’d like to solve this mystery, A Hand With Many Fingers is a short game waiting for you to sleuth around its archives.

It’s a masterfully designed narrative. You get some notes, newspapers, and reports, and see what you’re able to deduce.

Then, once you get an idea, you need to look for the card corresponding to the name you want to look up… in a certain year, on a certain part of the world. You’ll get an archive number, then down you go looking for the box!

Piecing together the who, when, and where becomes a constant puzzle where every new note lets you revise all the previous links. It becomes engaging very quickly, and it never stops hooking you until the end.

As you get to join the dots and see a conspiracy take form, you get a twofold sense of euphoria: on one side, the eureka moment of finding connections, and on the other side, the riveting drama of a real-world undercover intrigue.

The game’s short, like an hour or an hour and a half. I tend to lose focus around 45 minutes, but I have a messed-up attention span. But A Hand With Many Fingers never lost me. It was always there, demanding me to take more notes and pull through these weird connections.

I invite you to give the game a chance, too. There’s nothing like a good night of unveiling conspiracies. Be careful, however. The job might not be as calm as it seems.

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