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06-16-2017
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Grimscribe
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Pathologic
A Russian survival game that will be worthwhile to some Ligottians here.
 It's unique due to its aesthetic, text-heavy, Russian mystical plot. It is about surviving in a plague-ridden town and the difficult choices one has to make. As news of the plague spreads, prices fluctuate sometimes to astronomical level and desperation sets in for everyone. Slow, creeping anxiety, desperation, paranoia, and distrust heighten as there is only 24 hr a day and every careless action lowers your chance of survival. It's infamous for being hard, and that's definitely true  The only auto-regenerative stat below is Immunity, for the others you have to consume scarce resources to replete them. Weapons and clothings degrade by a % after each usage and they are expensive to repair/upgrade. Complete cure of infection is extremely rare and antibiotics slow down infection but damage health badly, so the fear of infection is real . There is a bartering economy in which you trade trinkets with children for valuables, but they are fickle. Fun map of how every choice is damning in the game, but in actuality it's not linear as shown here.  Scenes of the town    I don't want to spoil the story too much, but it is more than about the plague. The fight between the humans and the incomprehensible, the science and the mystical...it conveys each side well. | |||||||||||
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"Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. In other words, how do you fill out an empty life? With women, books, or worldly ambitions? No matter what you do, the starting point is boredom, and the end self-destruction. The emblem of our fate: the sky teeming with worms. Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms."
---Tears and Saints, E. M. Cioran
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