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Ghost Town
Edge UK
|July 2025
Fireproof Games’ step outside of The Room retains many of the features that made those games sing.
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Once again you're presented with a series of puzzleboxes, the purposes of their various cranks, dials and cogs deciphered through physical experimentation. The original mobile games were built for touchscreen, before 2020's A Dark Matter shifted to VR and motion controls; Ghost Town retains both plus that game’s expanded ambitions, pushing them further still.
It’s telling that, while Ghost Town defaults to the old VR teleport navigation, there’s an option for analogue-stick control. It’s one we'd advise taking, since you'll be doing a lot more walking and exploring here. In contrast to the confines of
This story is from the July 2025 edition of Edge UK.
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