49 Keys hides hellish horrors inside the pages of an outdated medieval e book, tasking you with rigorously studying it to unravel its mysteries.
A person from a spiritual order receives a message from his outdated Grasp. It particulars his failing well being, which spurs you to hurry to be by his facet earlier than he passes. You’re sadly too late by the point you arrive, however you’re informed to be welcomed to the Grasp’s island residence. Going there might show to be a mistake, although, because the Grasp was pushed to depart your spiritual order for some excellent causes you’ll come to search out as you discover his home.
The sport performs out like a e book, seeing you flipping by pages of descriptions of particular person rooms and an general map of the complete place. As you learn up on necessary locations and occasions, these get added to what you may entry in your map or discover in your travels. Rooms steadily develop in significance as you determine what they’re used for (otherwise you acquire entry to gadgets you should utilize in them). Additionally they disappear as you full them, decreasing locations you need to discover whenever you’re caught. It nonetheless largely performs out like a degree & click on journey, however the book-like aesthetic and the ever-changing locations you may entry and do make it really feel such as you’re thumbing by a tome that’s each magical and harmful.
As 49 Keys appears to be like like a e book, it additionally reads like a e book, giving a superb sense of the rising unease of its spiritual protagonist (in addition to their rising curiosity). It makes for some great, chilling studying because the protagonist slowly will get dragged deeper as your personal curiosity because the gamers carries them additional into the story. With some intelligent puzzles that can require you learn the way its gadgets work and take note of the paperwork you’re studying, it additionally closely rewards being attentive to its phrases. It’s enormously satisfying with its narrative, visuals, aesthetic, and puzzles.
49 Keys might be made accessible right now on the Nintendo eShop and Steam.
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