Oxenfree is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Night School Studio. It was released for OS X, Windows, and Xbox One in January 2016. PlayStation 4 and Linux versions were released later in 2016, followed by iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch versions in 2017. In Oxenfree, players assume the role of the teenage girl Alex on a weekend trip to a local island. After seemingly supernatural events occur, Alex and her friends must unravel the secrets of the island. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Harkin, Stephanie. “Liminal Rhetoric in Girlhood Games: Developmental Disruption in Night School Studio’s Oxenfree.” Game Studies 21, no. 3 (2021).
Research that includes this game in its sample
Kway, Liting, and Alex Mitchell. “Emotional agency in storygames.” In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, pp. 1-10. 2018.
Kway, Liting, and Alex Mitchell. “Perceived agency as meaningful expression of playable character personality traits in storygames.” In Interactive Storytelling: 11th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2018, Dublin, Ireland, December 5–8, 2018, Proceedings 11, pp. 230-239. Springer International Publishing, 2018.