Phoenix Springs: Unique Point-and-Click Adventure

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Phoenix Springs reimagines the point-and-click adventure as weird noir

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Phoenix Springs is an elegant revision of point-and-click mechanics, transforming what can often feel like an opaque and sometimes clunky genre into something more supple, streamlined, and modern.

The beguiling spell that Phoenix Springs casts is only intermittently broken by its sometimes obtuse puzzles.

The game is a game of abundant negative space with large parts of the screen blocked out by slabs of shimmering color.

Yet even as the game mutates into an odder metaphysical shape than its detective premise seemed to initially suggest, it does not sag or lose any potency. On the contrary, the game becomes more powerful as it becomes clear just how far Iris is willing to go in order to follow her little brother and restore their connection. Throughout it all, Leo Dormer remains at the center of her mind map; he remains the one constant in Iris ’ thoughts. Phoenix Springs launches October 7th on PC..

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