Fire Escape Review (TheLemon)
Perhaps get this game on sale if you really must.
It's not a well written story. The gimmick of the game is being a voyeur, who is watching people as they live in their apartments across his alley. How he is hearing these people, I have no idea. Unfortunately, this isn't much more thrilling than an old ViewMaster. All you do is watch, with very little action being taken by you. A few phone calls.
The game presents elements and then abandons them to the ether, to push forward a story that is rushing towards a non-ending. You are presented with possible supernatural elements that end up being... I cannot remember what that ended up being. You are presented with ASMR Sweetie (ASMR Darling of YouTube) having some bizarre "Into it" aspect of your character's voyeurism, but not elaboration. You even have a murder mystery that basically amounts to nothing. That is this game's greatest flaw. Everything you see amounts to nothing.
You're either going to see the very obvious "twist" that the game is going for, or you'll pay attention to the wrong conversations, and end up not piecing anything together. It would be very easy for someone to miss vital story information every single time during this, by switching to another window at just the wrong moment. Unfortunately, either way, this twist leads to a very passively observed ending that feels like the end of a first chapter of a longer game. Even if given a sequel, it wouldn't be worth paying the money for only one other 60 minute completely passive experience.
My advice is to just get Bigscreen and watch a proper movie in VR. You'll get nearly the same experience but a (likely) better story.