Uneven plotting and tech issues mar an otherwise engrossing mystery in 'The Medium'

The Medium is an unforgiving game, but not for the reasons you might think.

It's not that the horror adventure from Bloober Team, the Polish studio behind 2020's Blair Witch and the Layers of Fear series, is particularly challenging from a mechanical standpoint. It embraces a mix of play genres across 10-or-so hours, but everything you do is really there to serve the story. It's the hook meant to keep you playing.

For most of the time you spend in The Medium's clutches, that story is hard to look away from. It's an ever-deepening mystery in which you play as Marianne, a woman who lives with each foot firmly planted in two different worlds: The real one that we know and live in every day, and a metaphysical one inhabited by the spirits of those who have passed on but not moved forward. Read more...

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