First Gameplay Trailer for ‘Cognition’

As the cre­ator of   Gray Mat­ter  and  Gabriel Knight ‚ two of my favorite adven­ture games of all time, I’ll play any­thing that has Jane Jensen’s name attached to it. I’ve gushed about my love for Jane’s fab­u­lously twisted mind many times on this blog, and I am a proud backer of her Pinker­ton Road Studio.

Her lat­est Kick­started col­lab­o­ra­tion, the episodic mur­der mys­tery Cog­ni­tion: An Erica Reed Thriller , to which Jane lent her writ­ing tal­ents, debuted its first trailer today:

Cog­ni­tion is a clas­sic point-and-click style adven­ture game, with cel-shaded art­work by comic book artist Romano Mole­naar .

You play as Erica Reed, an FBI agent with an unusual quirk. She has post-cognitive abil­i­ties, and though she claims not to like “the spooky crap” her abil­ity to see past events will help her hunt down the ser­ial killer that mur­dered her brother. This point-and-click is two parts inves­ti­ga­tion to one part hor­ror, par­tic­u­larly since the killer seems to have para­nor­mal abil­i­ties of their own. “When she comes across a crime scene that has clues that were left specif­i­cally for some­one with her abil­i­ties,” says the pro­mo­tional blurb, “a new hunt is on. Who knows her secret? How? And what do they want from her?”

[via The Escapist ]

The game doesn’t have an exact release date yet, but is due out some­time this fall.

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