![]() It also looks impressively pretty, in a way I suspect this build would not had it been clean lines.Ĭontained within are the sketchy details of relationships between members of the cult, the nature of people's devotion - or lack of - in its leader Father James, and the vision and values of his grim leadership. This is all presented in a pixelated world, that here seems to serve two purposes - to give the game a retrospective feel that accompanies visiting a place abandoned in the early 90s, and to - I believe - give the player a sense of distance, a lack of focus. Gently gated by the discovery of various keys, you meander through the meeting rooms, school, trailer park, church and various other locations, reading notes, listening to recordings, and piecing together the tale of how the cult came into existence, and how it left it again. ![]() Set in Albuquerque, on the fictional Black Sage Ranch, this is a first-person explore-me-do, in which the story of the compound - and how it ended in what is called the "1993 Perfect Heaven mass suicide" - is told by picking through the various buildings that remain on the site. ![]() And while this could obviously be a topic rife with issues, it's handled here remarkably sensitively, without any loss of emotional punch. A walking-sim-cum-puzzle game in which you explore the abandoned site of a cult. ![]() Dipping into my Itch.io backlog, I found a game released in September that we completely missed - Sagebrush. ![]()
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