Open Wounds

Editorial Meh

Open Wounds arrives with solid visuals and likeable characters, but stumbles on originality and emotional engagement. The setup—a foster-parent cop named Joe, his daughter Zoe as a childhood-friend love interest, a rival cop—maps directly onto *The Flash* (CW) stripped of superpowers, and reviewers note the derivative nature extends even to character names and plot beats. The writing itself reads as dull and hard to invest in, and a key story choice (Zoe's existing boyfriend, presented as a betrayal of friendship) divides players on whether it adds meaningful conflict or simply closes off a desired route. Render quality is generally praised, though some minor proportion inconsistencies have been flagged. Critically, the developer has been silent for over a year; the game was last updated in v1.0a and is effectively abandoned, with the Patreon under review. For a work still incomplete and no longer actively developed, Open Wounds offers a competent but uninspired foundation that fails to justify its derivative premise.