What Remains of Edith Finch, the upcoming title by The Unfinished Swan developer Giant Sparrow, is about a young woman exploring her family abode. It's a strange ramshackle concoction predicated on one ludicrous notion: that once a family member dies their room shall remain forever untouched. Naturally this leads to diminishing real estate opportunities, but the Finch lot is nothing if not resourceful, continually building new additions to this most haunted of tombs.
Yet What Remains of Edith Finch isn't a horror story. Not in the conventional sense anyway. Based on the chapter I played at GDC last month, Edith Finch is creepy and unsettling, but it doesn't dwell on the doom and gloom, conflating it instead with a heaping dose of whimsy and wonder. It's more Terry Gilliam than David Lynch, as it were.
Each chapter of What Remains of Edith Finch is a standalone story about a deceased member of the Finch clan. The bit I see is about Edith's recently lost older brother, Lewis, who passed away in his mid 20s.
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