What Remains of Edith Finch Review: I Wasn't Ready

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What Remains of Edith Finch review
What Remains of Edith Finch review - Oh, the memories.

Platforms - PC/IOS/PS4/PS5/Nintendo Switch/Mac
How Long To Beat

Don't tell me I am the only one that after playing What Remains of Edith Finch, memories came back to you that you didn't even know you had.

It's that sort of game.

So What Is This Game?

You’re Edith, and you've come back to your childhood home, which, by the way, looks like a dollhouse stacked on a treehouse stacked on a fever dream. 

Everyone in your family is dead. Literally everyone, and you walk through the house and find out how it all happened.

Each room is frozen in time, sealed off like a shrine. You find notes, books, and oh so many memories, every single one different than the last.

The Deaths Are a Lot

Not even joking, every death plays out like its own mini-game.

One moment you’re turning into animals in some trippy bedtime story, and the next you’re working at a fish factory, disassociating so hard your brain invents an RPG. There’s one where you’re a baby in a bathtub and that one messed me up.

It’s not just about how they died, but also how they remembered dying. You’re not just seeing a tragedy, you’re also seeing how that person saw themselves. Or didn’t.

And by the end, when it all clicks into place, you just kind of sit there. Not crying exactly, but feeling weirdly hollow in your chest. 

What Remains of Edit Finch will make you feel things
What Remains of Edith Finch doesn't feel like a small game

Don’t Expect Gameplay - Just Expect to Feel Weird

If you’re looking for action or puzzles or stuff to “do,” this is not that game.

You walk. You read. You watch. You listen. You feel.

It’s the kind of game you finish in one sitting, then immediately recommend to three people like, Hey. You need to play this. No, seriously.

Because even though it’s short. it doesn’t feel small. It feels like walking through someone else’s memories and realizing some of them are also yours.

Should You Play This or Just Watch on YouTube?

Pros:

  • Super creative storytelling — every death is told differently

  • House design is insane in the best way

  • You can finish it in one sitting (and honestly, you should)

  • No filler, no fluff, just story that hits way harder than expected

  • Makes you feel things without trying too hard

Cons:

  • No real “game” mechanics - it’s an experience, not a challenge

  • Might leave you emotionally ruined before bedtime

  • You’ll wish it was longer but also… maybe it’s the perfect length
What Remains of Edith Finch isn’t fun in the usual way. It’s quiet. Strange. Uncomfortable sometimes.

But if you’ve got 2–3 hours and a functioning heart, it’s absolutely worth it.

Just don’t go in expecting a game.
Go in expecting a story.
One that kind of stays with you, even after you shut it off.

And because I am nice, here's a gameplay video from YouTube for you to watch. (Not my video)


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