This is it, the last game in this series. It is titled Faith because, I think, that is a recurring theme in season 8 of the show. The title screen advises of the PC specifications. The virtual machine I created unintentionally meets all these.
This is almost the exact same intro email as the previous installment.
The season 5-7 games focused on one episode. The season 8 game returns to the original format where it covers several episodes. The first is The Gift.
The first puzzle is a game where you have to match patterns.
It's pretty easy. You just slide the listening thing around until you match the expected pattern. Compared to all the previous games, this is super simple.
After that it's on to another episode - Deadalive.
This is the same chat interface as last time. I was expecting a trivia game after this.
Instead there's more dialog that leads to another mini-game.
This description sounds very complicated. It's deceiving though. The actual game coming up is also simple.
Once you get past the eye pain, you'll realize this is a short maze. I mean, really short. There are like 3 turns in it. The difficulty comes from the time limit and chonky controls. I failed the first time but there are endless retries.
Now there is an email with a decision. I'll try both paths, once again selecting the first option first.
That was a mistake. It's an instant game over.
The other "correct" option leads to something very confusing, to me at least. There's a map with many points on it. These all correspond to major show episodes.
Clicking on any point opens a recap of the episode.
You then have to choose whether that episode deals with the alien/hybrid events or not. It's hard to tell with The X-Files though. There are episodes in the main story arc that turn out to be red herrings. I made the best selections I could.
I guess I didn't pick right. There are too many options to figure this out via trial and error. I give up.
So it's game over. That's fine.
The credits are about the same. There's a second book ad. I have something like 400 books like this accumulated over almost 30 years. Yet, I don't own either of these.
OK, that's it. It's the last X-Files DVD game. It's the shortest in terms of content but maybe the longest in terms of figuring out how to "win" it. If you bounce back to the index for this article you can see my concluding thoughts on this series if that's a thing you want to do.
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