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Phoenix Springs reimagines the point-and-click adventure as weird noir
An unsettling journey.
Like Disco Elysium, there is a peculiarity to Phoenix Springs whose world is inspired by our own, features many of the same objects and similar kinds of locations, yet diverges in enough unsettling ways to feel deeply confounding. The makers of Phoenix Springs, a three-person art collective spread across the UK and France, don’t care if you “git gud”; they just want to tell you a bizarre, unsettling story. Nods to bioethics, toxic fungi, and the “green crater in the heart of the desert” evoke the weird fiction of Jeff VanderMeer(as popularized in the author’s Southern Reach series of novels).
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