Each year for her mother’s birthday, they get together online so that everyone can take turns quizzing one another on subjects of their choosing. The story is experienced from the perspective of Abby, who’s getting ready to join her family’s video call. Eileen Davies, Susannah Doyle, Gabrielle Glaister, Robbie Kay, Georgia Small, and Al Weaver fill out the remaining cast, all doing serviceable jobs playing cartoonish versions of entitled and all-around dreadful people. Abigail Hardingham plays Abby, the character you essentially control. Andy Buckley, who played Dunder Mifflin’s CFO David Wallace, is cast in the titular role and does a great job playing up the goofiness of the script without going overboard. This one features some familiar faces: fans of The Office, in particular, will recognize Uncle Marcus immediately. The game was developed by Good Gate Media and published by Wales Interactive, a collaboration that has resulted in several similar FMV titles already, including The Complex and Night Book. These options are of two types: you will either need to decide which character to break away with and engage in a private chat, or choose between 2-3 responses within these chats in the hope of prying information to help you figure out what happened to Uncle Marcus. Occasionally you will need to make a choice, and a timer bar will show at the bottom of the screen. The bulk of your experience is spent watching a cringeworthy Zoom-type call featuring a group of relatives so horrible to each other that it’s surprising they did not gestate in the mind of George R.R.
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Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? is more of an interactive movie than a game, but even the interactivity is close to zero.
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It makes for a mildly entertaining live-action whodunit with solid acting performances, at least at first, though player agency is so limited, you’ll often be hard-pressed to tell it isn’t just another hour-long TV show. Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? takes this same route by placing you in the midst of a family so vile, they would fit right in on any given Sunday night on HBO Max. Seeing folks with more money than they know what to do with become so damaged by their wealth and privilege that they create a train-wreck spectacle makes it almost impossible to turn away. We find ourselves in a renaissance of sorts with shows like Succession and The White Lotus making awful people fun to watch. Popular culture can’t seem to get enough of depicting super-rich families treating each other like dirt.
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