Sally Beaumont, voice actor in Old Skies and The Séance of Blake Manor, extols the virtues of narrative singleplayer games ‘You can have lots of them in your PC toolbelt’
PC Gamer’s “Disk Cleanup” interview series features voice actor Sally Beaumont, known for her work in narrative-driven games Old Skies and The Séance of Blake Manor. The recurring feature showcases the gaming preferences and PC setups of gaming industry figures.
Beaumont reflects on her gaming journey, revealing that her earliest PC gaming memory involves playing Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards—a game she acknowledges she shouldn’t have been playing at the time, highlighting how parents in that era often dismissed games as frivolous entertainment for children.
However, it was The Curse of Monkey Island that proved transformative for Beaumont’s career trajectory. The point-and-click adventure game inspired her to pursue voice acting, with particular gratitude (or as she puts it, “blame/love”) directed at Dominic Armato, who voiced the protagonist Guybrush Threepwood. Armato’s performance demonstrated to Beaumont the potential for voice acting as a legitimate career path within gaming.
The interview positions Beaumont as an advocate for narrative-driven singleplayer experiences, emphasizing their continued value and importance within a gamer’s collection.