Year: 2025
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Norco is a point-and-click adventure game with unsettling vibes and a confusingly surreal story. Imagine William Gibson ghostwriting for William Faulkner, then add a pinch of horror. It’s as weird as it is alluring, and I’m still not quite sure what to make of the experience.
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It’s not surprising that Ihatovo Monogatari never came to North America after its 1993 release for the Japanese Super Famicom. At a glance, it looks like a typical JRPG, but I suspect this strange little game would have completely confounded American audiences at the time. There wasn’t much demand for slow, thoughtful video games… and…
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Backpack Hero is a charming game about inventory management. You play as a rat named Purse who finds a magic backpack and uses it to explore an ever-shifting dungeon. You’ll find weapons, armor, and other items that have interesting characteristics and effects. The key to surviving as you move deeper into the dungeon is to…
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Citizen Sleeper is like a science-fiction novella with story choices and dice rolls. You play as a mechanical being with an emulated human consciousness. In the opening moments of the game, you escape from the megacorporation that owns you and end up on a run-down space station. Your goal is to survive.