Finished Pentiment and. God I love it. It takes place in 1500s Barvaria and is about an artist, Andreas Maler, who stays in the small town of Tassing after he finishes his apprenticeship and ends up solving a murder while he's there. There are so many things I like about it - the artstyle, which mimics medieval art is gorgeous. I also really like how it uses different fonts to represent different characters - most get a simply handwriting script, learned characters get a slightly neater one, characters associated with printers have stamped/printed text, etc. You can also see the scripts being written out as they go, with mistakes that are then erased and fixed (you can also set the text to appear instantly or be in simpler fonts in the accessibility menu, if it bothers you. There's also a text to speech option as well). Another thing I really like is the diversity of the game. While there isn't much in terms of race, etc, as one might expect from a small Bavarian town, there is a bit - several disabled and gay characters, a visiting priest from Ethiopia, a Romani man, and a Jewish family, all of whom are written in a well-rounded, thoughtful way. In addition to this diversity of identity, there is also a great deal of diversity of opinion and class position - peasants and townsfolk with a variety of opinions on each other and whether they should fight for a better life, mothers and nuns with varying degrees of contentment about their lives, etc.

A huge part of the game is discovering hidden truths that have been buried over, and related to that, the idea that knowledge is power, and that you should therefore be careful with what you know. I can't really get into details without spoilers, but a lot of the game focuses on uncovering information, and then deciding what to do with that, which can have profound effects on people's lives. The game also uses these themes, especially in the third act, to reflect on how we remember the past, and how we can judge people back then and find them strange based on our own beliefs and lives, when in reality they were just people

Overall it's a great game that I highly recommend, definitely one I want to replay