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Lorn’s Lure is the anti yellow paint game, a joyful and maddening exploration of sunken megastructuresGormenghasp
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Image credit:Rubeki Games
Image credit:Rubeki Games
Initially,Lorn’s Lurefeels like an escape. A first-person spelunking sim, it takes place in a colossal, mournful extent of pipes and silos, ancient turbines and concrete cliffs, where emergency lighting and broken gantries form scrappyplatformingroutes into darkness.
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Lorn’s Lure is Out NOW!
If I sound like I’m making a big song and dance out of the routine observation that a platform game’s challenge is the gap between your abilities and the terrain, well, I probably am. But I’m also belabouring the fundamentals because Lorn’s Lure makes first-person platforming feel new again. New and eldritch and, at times, perfectly maddening.
Image credit:Rubeki Games
The game’s story, meanwhile, is told as much through the changing surface materials as through the scannable machines and digital journal entries you stumble on - the relics of previous android explorers, some of whom have lapsed into madness. Encountering a new species of texture, an exotic hue of concrete or steel, is a story event. When you run into a kind of metal that is actually reflective, freshly forged or polished in a landscape of grime and rust, it’s a source of suspense. What could lie beyond? In short: consider me thoroughly lured.
