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Norco makers’ new game Silenus lets you boogie in a gothic industrial hellscapeNorco-laboration
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Image credit:Geography of Robots
Image credit:Geography of Robots
The music in haunting 2DadventureNorcowas so good it’s one of the few soundtracks I’ve actually bought on Steam, so I’m deeply intrigued to learn that developer Geography of Robots are putting music - and dancing - front and center in the new demo for their next project,Silenus. You can bop your way between screens, reader!
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Rubens Link, an enigmatic company with an unclear agenda, has taken control of the Gulf Flow oil refinery. Officially, they’re introducing new automation technologies, but the changes they’ve implemented suggest something more confounding. In this narrative micro-adventure, you play as Titian, Rubens Link’s flagship android. Explore the refinery’s machinery, tank farms, and offices, deciphering clues from computer logs, discarded journals, and the remnants of vanished workers. Solve puzzles, absorb the atmospheric soundscapes of FmAura & Gewgawly I, interact with unique characters, and wander deeper down the rabbit hole of Gulf Flow Oil.
I was going to do a bit about ‘Reuben’s link’ but I already linked the demo. Not a massive loss for comedy, honestly. For what it’s worth, I loved Norco to haunted little bits. It was a brilliantly written 2D adventure set in South Louisiana that makes me want to use words like ‘hauntological’ and such. Silenus is in 3D and takes a completely different visual approach, but as much as I’d have eaten up another offering in Norco’s vein, it’s great to see Geography of Robots not pigeonholing themselves this early. Silenus is currently “very early in development”, which gives you enough room to go play Norco. Twice!
