inventive narrative deduction game steeped
TR-49 review – inventive narrative deduction game steeped in the strangest of wartime secrets
The UK game developer's latest is a database mystery constructed from an archive of fictional books. According to the tantalising lore of this mystery game, two engineers created a machine that feeds on the most esoteric books: treatises on quantum computing, meditations on dark matter, pulp sci-fi novels and more. In the mid-2010s, when the game is set, Britain finds itself again engulfed by war, this time with itself. The arcane tool may hold the key to victory. You play as budding codebreaker Abbi, a straight-talking northerner who is sifting through the machine now moved to a crypt beneath Manchester Cathedral.