Index The Apothecary of TrubizA cute little three-dollar cipher-puzzle game that’s three dollars worth of puzzles.TR-49Research and deduction games are taking off as a genre, and this one’s a solid entry into the roster. You’re given a computer terminal and the task of finding and identifying one specific book in the database, and it sends you right down the rabbithole of an alternate literary history. There are a solid number of aha moments, I never felt like the path forward was too obtuse to stump me for long, and I was able to 100% it in a reasonable 7 hours. Nice and satisfying.Scarlet Hollow (Episode 5 update)I can’t remember if I’ve written about Scarlet Hollow in this series before, so here’s the precis just in case I haven’t: Slay the Princess devs, southern gothic horror VN, it’s fuckin’ good. Unicorn Meat is probably happening the next holler over.Where Slay the Princess is a line diverging into a fractal, Scarlet Hollow is a bowl of recursive spaghetti. Events connect to…
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