However, it's worth cranking the settings up as high as your PC will allow every inch of this world has been placed with meticulous, loving detail, and it all added to the sense of place that built as I worked toward solving the mystery. This also means it can be a resource hog for many computers. The game world isn't massive, but it is detailed to an almost absurd degree. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter has the looks of a modern triple-A release. Though it has the soul of a low-budget indie game - no combat, a simple, soft-spoken plot, etc. It's no surprise that developer The Astronauts would want players to focus on the surroundings.
So while the answer might be easy, the challenge is in the process of figuring out how to arrive at that answer and it was a challenge that I enjoyed unraveling each time. There's never going to be a tooltip to walk you through a solution. Again, since this is a game that has no tutorials, the puzzles can appear obscure at first. Ethan Carter's puzzles are never terribly complicated, but I found satisfaction in slowly figuring out how to do them. My reward for the backtracking was more than worth it, though. The open nature of the game was a double-edged sword it meant that I took my time exploring the game thoroughly and grew incredibly familiar with this beautifully crafted location, but it also meant that I spent a lot of time backtracking at the protagonist's not-terribly-fast pace. That freedom was more than a little intimidating at first, but the more time I spent with The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, the better I was able to read the environmental cues pointing me toward each new puzzle. You won't get an ending until you go back and complete each of the puzzles, but again, the game isn't going to tell you where to go or force you to follow a set path. But if you want to totally ignore those and dash right to the final area from the start, that is possible. The key to actually progressing through the story lies in solving a series of around 10 individual puzzles. From the moment you enter the Red Creek Valley area via a dark train tunnel, you're on your own, free to explore at your own pace, with pretty much every area opened up from the start. In both its narrative and in its gameplay, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter refuses to hold your hand. Prospero must explore the town and its surrounding countryside, gathering evidence and piecing together what horrific scenes have happened leading to Ethan's disappearance.
As The Vanishing of Ethan Carter begins, you step into the shoes of Paul Prospero, a psychic detective who has been summoned to a quiet riverside town to search for a missing boy - the eponymous Ethan Carter.
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