What Remains of Edith Finch is a first-person exploration video game developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game was released in 2017 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One; for Nintendo Switch in 2019; for iOS in 2021; and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2022. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Bozdog, Mona, and Dayna Galloway. “Worlds at our fingertips: reading (in) what remains of edith finch.” Games and Culture 15, no. 7 (2020): 789-808.
Kirkland, Ewan. “‘He Died a Lot’: Gothic Gameplay in What Remains of Edith Finch.” In Death, Culture & Leisure: Playing Dead, pp. 95-107. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Theodoulou, Jack, and Jen Scott Curwood. “Play the game, live the story: pushing narrative boundaries with young adult videogames.” English Teaching: Practice & Critique (2023).
Research that includes this game in its sample
Anderson, Sky LaRell. “Portraying mental illness in video games: exploratory case studies for improving interactive depictions.” Loading 13, no. 21 (2020): 20-33.
Bachmann, Christian. “Scenes from the Digital Paperverse: Interactive Books in the Context of Digital Games.” Journal of Interactive Books 2 (2023): 1-15.
Ehret, Christian, Emily Mannard, and Jen Scott Curwood. “How young adult videogames materialize senses of self through ludonarrative affects: understanding identity and embodiment through sociomaterial analysis.” Learning, Media and Technology 47, no. 3 (2022): 341-354.
Schallegger, René Reinhold. “Challenging Challenge: Towards a Redefinition of Games.” Savegame: Agency, Design, Engineering (2019): 129-148.
Spellman, Ched E. “What Remains of Our Lament?: Exploring the Relationship between Death, Memory, and Grief in the Christian Life and in Recent Cultural Texts.” Southwestern Journal of Theology 62, no. 1 (2020): 33.