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Echoes of the Emergent, a hauntingly beautiful Playdate exclusive, sold me on visual novels


Echoes of the Emergent is a Playdate-exclusive title from RNG Party Games, the same team that made Bloom. It's a visual novel that takes you on “a personal journey through a shattered post-apocalyptic world.”

Described as “a personal journey through a shattered post-apocalyptic world,” all it took was a glimpse of Echoes of the Emergent ’s gritty aesthetic and melancholic atmosphere to get me to preorder it. It opens with its main character, Ayumi, on a tense scavenging trip to find any food she can in a ruined city. The narrative is illustrated with haunting backgrounds of Ayumi’s dilapidated surroundings, and these move ever so slightly to create a really unsettling effect.

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