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DOWN BY THE WATER

Calligram Studio’s striking mystery begins with a young woman looking into the disappearance of her brother. As the game’s Steam blurb puts it, though, “you says, is the very essence of a good noir. “People are drawn to the aesthetic – the Venetian blinds, the ceiling fan and the detective – but they often miss that sense of doom,” he says, before alluding to Elmore Leonard’s pithy summation of the genre’s prevailing theme: “You’re fucked!”

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