Her Story is unlike any game I've ever played. It's not like other "story" games, where you walk around discovering things that advance the plot. Instead, you have one screen. On it is a database where you type in search terms and they yield videos of a woman talking to police at various points during a murder investigation. You hone in on things that this woman says, type those terms into the search bar, watch the new videos, find more important key words, and rinse and repeat. The game is only a couple hours long, which is good because it wears out its welcome fairly quickly.
The pros are that its extremely unique, the videos are short, easy to digest, and fun to watch, and you can "finish" the game fairly early on. If you want to keep playing to find every single video, the game is cool with that too. But don't expect to find a definitive answer to all of your questions. The game is purposely open-ended, allowing different interpretations as to what happened and why it happened. The game offers literally zero direction when you start, which I thought was really interesting. You have to figure out how to play, and there's a little manual button down at the bottom, but even that is couched in the game world and doesn't explain everything to you.
The con with this game is that I honestly thought the story was fairly ridiculous. By the time I got to the point where you figure out what's going on (for the most part), it was so unbelievable and far-fetched that I just couldn't get behind it. Especially because the game is supposed to be so realistic and set in the real world, there was just no way this ever could have happened the way that the game says it did. SPOILER: either there are twins that somehow no one has literally ever noticed together, one that murdered her adopted mother and then managed to grow to full adulthood living in the attic of the sister's childhood home, which is utterly ludicrous, or she's schizo and has multiple personalities, which is almost as absurd. There is no way she would have murdered all these people and no one has ever noticed she has a split personality. The whole thing was just nonsensical to me.
Despite that, I still had a fun couple of hours with the game; and I give it massive points for trying something new and not holding my hand.
7/10