If Found... Reviews

"If found" was nominated for "games for impact" award this year so I was intrigued. Unfortunatelly at it's core it appeared to be just a generic teenage drama. Transgender theme was for advertisement only and never explored below surface level. You can swap the main character with any cis-gendered teenage girl or boy and the story would make the same amount of sense.

Gameplay mechanics of erasing words was interesting for 5 minutes, but then got boring. It could have had real significance like healing character traumas or branching the story. Instead it's just a realy tedios way to move forward in a linear fashion.

Finally a few words about art: visually "If found" is just a collection of doodles. It's not in the same league as Gris and is rather forgettable. The same case being with music and sound effects.

this game made me cry, made me happy and made cry more.
it’s so amazing and touching, the way you uncover everything- it’s read so smoothly and it’s written so beautifully. It felt like I was in the story with them. I can’t express how much this has changed my perspective on things in life. It’s incredible. It just keeps unraveling in every step of the way, I played it non stop. I hope others get to experience the joy of playing this game, it’s so relatable to me, and that’s what has made it change my life too, it’s so comforting. Please buy this game, 10/10

This is a lovely story unfolding through a unique mechanism of gradually erasing a diary, in which many passages had been crossed out. It conveys the difficult cross-currents experienced by a young trans woman coming to terms with family and childhood friends in a touching and relatable manner. In one respect, the process of erasure seems like a letting-go of the past, making way for what will come - and indeed it’s the only way you can progress with the story. Well done!

… but very beautiful. The story is really touching and human. Visually and musically it’s striking. I did get a bit tired of the main mechanic to move the story forward (wiping the screen clean with your finger), since my finger would literally get tired. There was a side plot that I didn’t really get why it was important to the main plot, but maybe I just missed something there.

I played on iPad. iPad was cool because there is an eraser mechanic to the game and the touch screen made for a nice tactile effect. It took me about 4 or 5 hours to finish, but I tend to go slow and savor games like this. Most people would finish more quickly.

The story follows a trans girl who is home from college for winter break in a very small Irish town.

The art is super colorful and beautiful, if in a minimalist way. The story is mostly sad and somewhat ethereal. There are some abstract moments parsed between a fairly straightforward narrative.

There’s also wonderful music throughout. Mostly electronic music and ambient sounds. The music adds a lot of flavor to the story and was definitely a soundtrack rather than just background filler.

I loved this “game”!

Masterpiece of a game. Cannot express how happy I was to pick up this game, and finish it in 3-4 hours. The entire time I was hooked, wanting more and more. The concept that you erase someone’s memories in a diary is a absolutely crazy new idea of a visual novel, something that’s never been done before. Executed perfectly. The black hole part kinda confused me, after what happened and all, but, the game gets a 5/5.

Really enjoyed this. It plays similar to a free flowing visual novel without defined screens, where you use an eraser to advance the story.

The characters felt very personal and the struggles they went through felt real. I didn’t understand the black hole part of the story, but I was glued to the screen for everything else. Highly reccommended.

i abso-freaking-loutley love this story!! i’ve never seen something like it, that’s why it makes it so unique and fun. i can relate to characters like Kasio and Shans. i also like how you added LGBTQ+ representation in the story. as a bisexual, that meant a lot, as a lot of games and stories in general don’t have that. again, love this game so so so much!!

The masses give IfFound 5 stars because it has intersectional characters who spit on western values, and the entire thing is just so blasé at this point. No longer are narratives like this the counter culture, they are mainstream and there is nothing interesting or edgy about them, this is just another brick in the wall of the woke culture that dominates our screens.

Objectively it gets old fast, the swiping around on screen to progress the story is annoying and redundant

I’m not one to write reviews on games, but this one deserves it. It has a great storyline and the pictures and the look of it is great! All of the characters felt real and I could relate to many of them. Some of them more then others. (The brother wasn’t cool.) The story really blends well together. All in all, pretty cool game!

Visually stunning with a very unique play style, if found is treat and I loved every second of it. The soundtrack is spectacular and immersive. Kasio’s story is incredibly relatable and I really haven’t ever seen a game like this. Everyone needs to play this game!

I usually don’t buy games, but this one definitely stood out to me. I’m so glad I did! It was such a lovely game and felt very emotional and real, as well being a unique experience. I definitely recommend!

I loved reading this. I’ve played it twice and I’ll probably play it again when I need to kill time.

i initially downloaded this game because it was labeled as "celebrating pride" but i did not expect it to be as good as it was. it didnt take too long to finish. the plot was intrestesting and i loved that it wasn't given away all at once

This was one of the most amazing experiences I have had with graphic storytelling. Interactive and heartbreaking.
This story changed me.

I like to think I learned more about Irish culture and the LGBTQ+ community. If you like visual novels and story-based games, you won’t do wrong here. The developers did a great job.

The artwork was just beautiful
And the story was very relatable
Sometimes you just need to be hugged and told that your loved
And sometimes you just want to run and hide.
I really really loved this book/app
🌸🌸🌸

Based on some online reviews I was hoping for an interesting game. This is neither interesting nor a game. It’s a poorly animated graphic novel with an annoying UI. I rarely delete games I paid for, and even more rarely write reviews... IfFound was frustrating enough that I did both.

The graphics and the story are beautiful, but I paid $4.99 thinking there would be some sort of interactive component. There is not. The erasing is essentially how you “turn the page” in a book. So annoyed that I had to pay almost five dollars for what basically equates to a video comic book.

It’s rlly cute and nice but rlly not worth the buy you sit there reading erasing and trying to figure out what ur going to erase next and it’s good for the first 3 minutes but then it just drags and u have to do it the whole time. I will say that the drawings and animations of whatever is really pretty.

A really wholesome stylish gay lil 2 hour narrative game from an Irish team. If anyone’s played Florence, it reminded me a lot of that.

The gameplay is pretty much just interacting with the art and narrative using the touch screen of your phone, and the story was really lovely albeit a bit too heavy at times. Bittersweet relationships with home, connecting with all the other gay little misfits, and finding freedom in queerness. It all hit close to home and I cried like a bebé. Anywho its really pretty game and if you ever wanna emotionally wring yourself out like a sponge I’d definitely recommend it.