Kindergarten 3 Survive Wednesday at a very strange school

Each day is a string of assignments, and each one is its own little story. Help Ms. Lovelett stage a play on the classroom stage, crawl through the air ducts with Carla, join a support group, or just try to get through the day alive. You pick where to go and what to say, and the choices matter: the same morning can end in friendship, answers, or a new way to get ruthlessly murdered. The writing is the funniest in the series so far, and it stays sharp even when things get gruesome. Between assignments you explore the school yard, the library, the nurse's office and a playground with a really cool slide, poking at anything that looks suspicious. Which is most things.

Something is wrong at this school, and it is seeping out of every corner. The principal and several kids have gone missing, the goo from the first two games has followed you here, and the former janitor has somehow become the new principal. You gather clues, talk to everyone, and piece together what Monday and Tuesday set in motion. The lore runs deep across the whole series, and the hints buried in this one reward anyone paying attention. The final confrontation is the best the series has had, a proper payoff for all that snooping. Fair warning: the school is smaller than in Kindergarten 2, so there is less to poke at along the way.