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There are dead fat old men, unpleasant telephones, and a bit where you you make a stork sick up a baby. As with all the Cube Escape games, it’s set in an ever-changing single room, this time crossing time, dimensions, and goodness knows what else. Honestly, I feel no great impetus to explain the plot of this to you, because a) these games are all about the experience of finding out what is going to happen, and b) I’m not entirely sure I can. So I’m very pleased to have enjoyed a new game without that gnawing awkwardness creeping in. My main criticism of the excellent The White Door was their getting far too carried away by making clear their inspiration, as has often been the case. Sure, there are owls, but we’re all allowed owls.
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I’m pleased to say that’s far less the case in this latest entry. The developers have been far too guilty in the past of wearing their Lynchian influences on their sleeves, and then shoving their sleeves into your face and smooshing it all over your cheeks. It’s nothing so simple as fear, or dread, but this other-worldly unknown, this creeping otherness that means nothing ever feels quite right. (Rarely – these are not games for children, and it’s as likely that the solution to a puzzle will be to work out a combination for a lock as it is to slice of a man’s nipple and crawl inside the resulting hole.) It’s much more about the incredible way they develop a sense of impending… something. They don’t use jump-scares, and rarely even anything gory or unpleasant. Importantly, these aren’t traditional horror at all. It’s daft, but I’ve reached a point where seeing a slowly rotating, sometimes slightly shivering white cube, immediately puts me on edge. There are familiar elements to them all, so much so that the more of their games you play, the more impactful their appearances can be. All of them are hard to find for more than £2 each, and that is a ridiculous bargain for the amount of bizarro-puzzling they offer.Įach game in the world of Rusty Lake feels like a collection of clues to a puzzle no one’s set. Meanwhile, their longer games, Rusty Lake Hotel, Rusty Lake: Roots, Rusty Lake Paradise, and the most recent, The White Door, are all incredibly cheap.
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Because most of them are completely free! If the title includes “Cube Escape”, that means you’ll be able to download it free on mobile devices, and some on PC too. If you haven’t played any of these games before, boy do I have a treat for you. And it’s completely splendid, leaving me even more weirded out by my presumably fruitless attempts to gain something of a foothold in the universe’s metanarrative. That’s what I really like about mushroom photography.And when I say remake, consider this a ground-up brand new entry into the Cube Escape portion of their damned strange world, because it’s all new art, puzzles, music and design. I’d stop and snap a couple shots, and those momentary pauses with our faces close to the ground would open up whole new micro-worlds rich in life. Sometimes we carry a sack and have collected enough chanterelles for a meal or two, and enough orange and black chaga fungus for a lifetime of tea.īack at the Sturgeon River Preserve, my 5-year-old daughter skipped ahead and pointed out mushrooms, insisting I take pictures of them. He must have thousands of mushroom photos on his phone by now, and he likes uploading them to a Facebook group of mushroom enthusiasts who identify the genus and species in his photos. With a flick of his finger through a hole cut in his glove, he snaps a picture or two, crouching and kneeling to get just the right angle.
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When he finds something, which is about every 10 minutes or so, he pulls out his smartphone. Photo by Chris EngleĪs he walks and looks, Ivan’s also eyeballing the ground for interesting or edible fungi. This is what Ivan Witt calls “caviar” fungus for its uncanny resemblance to fish roe.