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Apartment Story's fascinating domestic puppet show traces the thin boundaries between player and character
Our thoughts on Apartment Story, a shortform game where depth of character and experience leaves an outsized impression.
And yet race is not the right word at all, because while events pile up swiftly, somehow they do this while you, living as or alongside the man in his small apartment, still have a lot of blandly aimless time to fill. You are the man in the apartment, but you also aren't him: he's awkward and slightly indirect to move around, and your button presses are often met with a purposeful pause that keeps you both separated, both of you under glass and mouthing words back and forth. Image credit: Blue Rider Interactive It's kind of like being a puppeteer, or directing the movements of distant chess pieces over ham radio - I say it's like this, I've never done either.
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