Azrael360: The game is a re-imagined tale of the Little Red Riding Hood, or at least, clearly based on. Once you get there, the girls will meet the wolf, and will die, each one in a different way, and once they do, you will see an "ending", and you have to pick another girl to do exactly the same... It sounds cruel and boring, except that, if you read the description "...And it needs to be broken", it means that you have to think out of the box. At each side of the path is the forest. If you go out of the path an into the forest, you will find some clues to the past of each girl, some in the way of puzzles that can only be solved by an specific girl or item. The more you walk into the forest, the more dark and scary it gets, and probably you will end up lost. If you do, a girl in white will come to play with you and help you get back into the path.

The more puzzles or discoveries you find, the more you know about the girls. But eventually, you will have to go to the path and go to the grandmother's house... and their ends will make more sense. Once you have picked all the girls, all the girls are selectable again from the main menu to start from where you left. And this is the chance to find something that maybe you missed.

amok: Actually, each girl has a "wolf" in the forrest. If you manage to find the right wolf for a girl, you get teleported to grandmas house with no option but to enter. How many rooms you see in Grandmas house, depends on how many objects you found and interacted with in the forest, so if you stumble on your "wolf" early, you may not see it all. However, part of the game is to find the wolf also.

jamyskis: I found it to be utter pretentious tripe with delusions of artistic value.

NoNewTaleToTell: I see that you've already decided to take a chance on it, but I'll throw out a few sentences on it anyway.

I bought The Path during one of Steam's sales last year and I'm glad I did. I haven't completely finished it, but I've played through most of it. It's similar to Dear Esther, but much more interactive in terms of gameplay (it actually has some gameplay). The graphics (and the graphic effects) and the sounds (including music) in The Path are excellent and help to create an outstanding atmosphere (it IS quite effective), and together they tell much of the story. The story itself is decent enough, despite the absence of dialogue, and much of it is fairly open to interpretation. Each character has a different personality and I seem to remember that some of the forest changes depending on which character you are.

Oh, and you can walk straight to Grandmother's house, if you wanted to.

F1ach: Well, I played the first Chapter (Ginger) and I honestagod have no clue what it was about, the last bit was just bonkers on rails stuff.

Hopefully it will open up, I got a rank C and found something like 16 items (flower type things), but some of the stuff was really annoying, the camera, the movement (you can only go forwards and if your character is behind eg. a shed and you cant see them, trying to get them from behind the shed is annoying), some stuff can only be interacted with properly from a certain angle apparently so I think I may have missed some interactions.

There is no real direction point, you wander aimlessly, there is a map that intermittently appears and show you where you are but not in relation to anything else which is kinda useless.

The soundtrack is quite beautiful though :)

F1ach: There is no real direction point, you wander aimlessly, there is a map that intermittently appears and show you where you are but not in relation to anything else which is kinda useless.

Kardwill: It's normal to be utterly lost the first time you play. The map and direction points appear later, when you have completed some things : Found X flowers, went to grandma's house without leaving the trail... (those are the meaning of the messages "You know where you are", etc at the end of a play)

Oh, and don't bother with the "rank", if I remember correctly it's only there to mess with your head ;).

jamyskis: I found it to be utter pretentious tripe with delusions of artistic value.