There’s something sinister there Dance in video games. It’s a fun activity, but once it’s put into an unexpected context, things get weird. The Dancing Village in Elden Ring is an example of this, but there are also real events like this dancing plague of 1518 (a thing you should read about) that are even ...
Hi! I’m Yuts, a member of the game development cooperation Geography of Robots. We released our first game Norco in March and are now bringing it to consoles with the help of our publisher Raw Fury. The game is a first-person point-and-click adventure in the style of classics such as snapper, Rise of the Dragonand ...
While it’s been available on PC and PC Game Pass since earlier this year, we’ve been waiting for the release of NORKO for this month on consoles and Microsoft’s subscription service. It will not fail for the time being. IMPORTANT UPDATE: It is no pleasure to deliver news of this nature two days in a ...
Point-and-click games cemented the huge potential of turn-of-the-century interactive narrative, using innovative environment/dialogue puzzles with impressive pixel art and chiptune music. These days we lose ourselves in impossibly large sandboxes with equally extensive, decision-driven storylines. It’s fitting, then, that Norco feels like a prized relic from the Sierra-led golden age of digital adventure. Geography of ...
At the beginning of the point and click adventure NorcoYour protagonist, Kay, throws her cell phone into the Rio Grande. Just prior to this, we witness conversations with her brother, Blake, who calls Kay with distressing news regarding their mother’s cancer symptoms. As we learn of those calls, the lines of two roughly drawn, scowling ...
I’m a little worried that Norco won’t be fun. The first comes from indie studio Geography of Robots, a dark game, a story about a region’s bleak, crumbling future. On the face of it, it’s also a serious question, with all its poised point-and-click vistas and dense blocks of prose. Seriously, of course. The seriousness ...
