Her Story was released on June 24, 2015. It was created by Sam Barlow, the creator of Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. He left Climax studios to “work on the kind of material he wanted to work on” (Edge) and became an independent developer. According to Sam Barlow, he knew “it had to be spent on something he loved, and because it might be his last act of rebellion…he drew from the publishers’ rejection pile” (Edge).This was the idea behind Her Story.

Sam Barlow took it further by combining database, real video, in a series of police interviews for the gamer to go through. He wanted to create a game that could be “understood by anyone” (Edge). He ended up creating a storyline to go along with the police interview process and created web documentation for every character of the game (Edge). Her Story is a crime fiction game that has a non-linear story where the game players take on the role of a person in the game (Smith), it is interactive with the game “centering on a series of seven fictional police interviews from 1994 (Rad).” The object of the game is to go through the interviews in order to solve the mystery of Hannah’s missing husband and what happened (Wikipedia).

The development of Her Story was funded by the support of the Indie fund (Smith). What makes this game so innovative and enticing is that it is leading the way for game designers, directors, and the industry to think about new ways of puzzle solving. In Her Story, the gamer becomes a part of the game by watching the live action videos and by interacting in a way that is groundbreaking to the way that the users think. The game is a pure origination and gives new meaning to video games.