Although “Help Annie” may not be as immersive and exciting as this company’s more recent works (Seven series, The Sign, The Healing) it still provides much fun, amidst plenty of action and hours of real-time gameplay as your decisions and guidance will help to determine Annie’s fate after a romantic trip to Romania with her husband turns into a living nightmare (she wakes up to find herself alone in their car, husband and daughter both missing, with you being the only person she can contact who can help her). For a game that’s entirely free and requires no puzzles to move on through levels, it hardly seems fair to give it anything less than 5 stars. Looking forward to the next chapters of The Healing and everything else these developers put out in the future! :)

I’m glad there’s no minigames, but good god there’s just so much waiting. Someone claims it’s more realistic, but I strongly disagree. This is a game that starts with a mystery where a woman lost in the woods turns on speech to text and it somehow picks up noise to play ambient sound while changing the phone background relevant images. Also you get to play through Annie’s nightmare. So we have a completely bizarre plot where Annie’s husband Thomas tried to kill her and run off with their daughter because Annie heard frankly absolutely nothing important over the phone. And the reason Thomas is like that is because his father ran off with him when he was a child. In my game I had her shoot him and then she flies home with her daughter and gets a text on Thomas’ phone that she’s still being watched. Then I got a game over jpg.And that’s what I played 30 seconds - 2 minutes of game followed by 12 minutes - 6 hours of waiting for. That’s what this mystery led to. A wet fart. I’m sorry, I appreciate the effort, but this isn’t even a good visual novel.

This and other interactive stories like this are so much fun and you get invested in the character(s) and their welfare. Sure there are some times when you have to wait for a bit, but I usually use that time to my advantage and go do other real life things that I need to do. :). I absolutely love reading and having a part in helping to try to save these characters. So much fun!!!

It’s kind of like those fun books when I was a kid. You get to the point where you get to choose what the character does and then you had to turn to the page for that option. You could read the book multiple times and it was different everytime. But with this story it’s someone sending you texts asking for help. I just started this story so I can’t say more yet. I only gave 4 stars because it has short interactions then you have to wait 10 or 20 minutes to proceed. You can skip but you have to pay to do it. They do give 2 for free though. I’m changing my review because ads started popping up right in the middle of text. Plus it gives you 3 sentences and then you make a choice and then wait 2 hours unless you buy skip coins. There’s no way to earn skip coins. It’s just not enough to keep my attention so I’m deleting it. Good idea, but not set up right