'Eternal Threads' is a walking sim where time travel feel like a chore

"Eternal Threads" can be a fun puzzle to play with once you have all the pieces together. It encourages experimenting with different possible outcomes. With some combinations of choices, a character may survive the fire, but their life is irrevocably changed for the worse because of what they did or didn't do beforehand. But it takes a long time to get to that point. The full playtime is around 10 hours, and by the time you've absorbed enough context through cutscenes to understand how certain events impact the timeline, the game's in its final hours. It's a shame too, because the narrative's final act does take an interesting turn, but my patience was already exhausted by that point.