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Explore a beautiful spooky city in this five-minute free gameWhat happened in City Of Muse? Well, meet the muse…

What happened in City Of Muse? Well, meet the muse…

“I’ve always had a bond with the City,” says a human-like arrangement of leaves in a City Of Muse screenshot. “But only now are we truly one."

Hey, you, wanna spend maybe five, ten minutes wandering around a deserted city which looks a bit like Hitman’s Sapienza orDishonored 2’s Karnaca? Admire some architecture? Meet some people? Wonder what hapened? Yeah you do. You want to visitCity Of Muse, a moody little pay-what-you-want game. I played its ten minutes yesterday and it’s still in my brain today. A good thing.

I’ll not say much, only that this is an excellent example of a type of game I adore. It wants to let you explore somewhere new, feel a big mood, build to a climax, then be done inside ten minutes. It does, and it is. I’ll take a handful of moody little games over one giant sprawling spookfest which drags on and insists upon explicitly answering every question, any day. Images and feelings like these lodge in my head then lurk the back with a life of their own, rather than being remembered as an exerience I did indeed undergo at exhausting length. Then in idle moments, they’ll creep out to wash those vibes over my brain again before slipping back away to a secluded fold. Splendid.

VIBES NOT PLOT: that’ll be my knuckle tattoos once these so-called doctors finally approve my finger transplants.

Thanks to our former boy (and currentindependent podcaster) Brendy for pointing this game out to me! Ta Brendy. Nice one.