NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? A peculiarly British folk horror point-and-click adventure game
EXPECT TO PAY £20
DEVELOPER Cloak and Dagger Games
PUBLISHER Wadjet Eye
REVIEWED ON Threadripper 2950x, 64GB RAM, RTX 3080
MULTIPLAYER No
LINK cadgames.weebly.com
What’s special about Thomasina Bateman? A protective talisman, perhaps? An alien embryo shot into her brain? She doesn’t have nightmares, at least not at the start of the game. Perhaps she’s a v… no, let’s not go there, though she’s not a police officer either. Whatever it is, it’s brought her to a town in England which, on the surface, appears normal, the residents going about their rural business.
Thomasina is a modern Victorian antiquarian, summoned to the village of Bewlay by a letter from one Leonard Shoulder, who readers of last month’s preview will be relieved to hear has been found. Hob’s Barrow has been excavated too, giving up its secrets at the point of a trowel. And what has she discovered?
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