The WhatsNext verdict
For Fans of choice-heavy visual novels, magical realism, and atmospheric narrative mysteries.: Meaningful timeline-altering choices and striking hand-drawn art turn Alice's journey through alternate realities into an engaging, reflective graphic novel. Tradeoff: Static presentation and reading-heavy pacing mean the experience offers little traditional gameplay challenge, while sung sections can feel hit-or-miss.
What it does best
Hand-drawn worlds that shift from muted realism to psychedelic color
Choices reshape Alice’s reality in genuinely different directions
Music is woven into the mystery instead of sitting behind it
What might put you off
The sung sections are uneven
A slow, static visual-novel opening
The setup
What you are walking into
Across the Grooves is an interactive graphic novel for PC/Mac/Linux, set in a magical-realism universe, where your decisions affect the destiny of Alice, the main character, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past.
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