The Vale: Shadow of the Crown

This game was an interesting concept, and full of fantastic voice acting.

You play at the blind daughter of the previous king, and your carriage is upended in an attack when you are travelling because of "realm politics".   The game has to travel, mostly on rails, but occasionally seeking out audio hotspots (like the clanging of a blacksmith's hammer or someone saying "over here!").

Game play is audio storytelling with interspersed segments where you're fighting wolves/humans/monsters listening to their audio cues and reacting directionally with shield/sword/bow.   It works okay, the hotspots seem fairly generous, and like I mentioned the voice acting is fantastic - I imagine there to be an interesting story (I'm guessing the brother in league with the fae instigated the civil unrest to seize the crown?) but so the path is overly littered with bandits and wolves, which ended up feeling a bit boring/repetitive.  DNF.