NORCO Reviews

One of the best adventure game I have ever played. The story is just so good, it will live rent free in your mind forever.

It has some of the best writing I've ever read in a video game. It also speaks to my small-town-boy heart...

A weird and wonderful text advneture/point and click in a thoroughly engaging deep south. Fantastic debut I've since replayed on Xbox Series X|S for achievements.

Interesting, strange story, with a vibrant, immersive pixel art world, the game doesn't just let you hit walls, which is nice. It gives you hints and reminders in case you forgot something or missed something. You won't have to look things up online to progress.

Unique point-and-click game. The 8-bit graphic look is often beautiful.

I found this disappointing. It's not really a point and click game, and not really a game at all. It's just a lot of dialogue, and the only clicking is to get the next paragraph. There didn't seem to even be any choices or puzzles or anything to do besides click on objects and read another monologue. If the written story is the main/only point of the game, then it needs to be something I am interested in or want to read, but this didn't seem well-written. It was like something a 14 year old thinks is deep - very forced. The presentation was nice, and I appreciated the atmosphere it tried to create with the pixel graphics and the music. But I don't want to read for ages about the backstory of some random person's family. And if I did then I would just read a book right? And it would presumably be better written with a proper narrative. If you particularly love the dystopian future Louisiana setting then maybe you'll love this game, but I didn't care for it. Most positive reviews seem to praise the story, but that's what I thought was the worst part. Although I quit pretty fast, because the writing was pretentious and I didn't want to click on any more things to read more of it. I perhaps had the wrong expectations going into this. I expected a point and click adventure game, but it's basically a mildly interactive visual novel, so it's only worth playing if you like the setting and the writing.

The writing and the art in general is great, some of the sentences sound like they came straight out of Disco Elysium. As a Point and Click adventure, it's pretty easy, and sometimes spoils the puzzles with obvious hints that you don't ask for. But I don't think you should play this game for puzzles, you should play it for the story.

A story about a town in Louisiana, with swamps and ne'erdowells and boats, and yet suddenly robots and monsters and stuff. Stories that feel very real and yet very fictional at the same time. Reminds me a lot of the [b]magical realism[/b] trend in Latin American literature, but this one happens in the Mississippi, and with the kind of storytelling that is easier to do in a videogame. A company has a big exploitation near a town, simultaneously provides growth and completely screws out the town and surrounding nature in the process. It's a good story, mostly a point-and-click adventure game, and not that long. Worth it.

Lovely, dirty, sad, funny, beautiful. A good and bad trip, totally worthwhile.

Preaching the cyberpunk gospel in a seething swamp of oil.