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This Lovecraftian firstperson adventure is simple, but eerie. A drunken sky sailor has crashed his ship into a floating archipelago – you, his longsuffering first mate, must find a Gravity Stone to get moving again. The choice to render everything in lo-fi ‘90s style is a clever one on the part of developer James Wragg. 2D sprites wheel around unsettlingly to face you at all times as you pad across the grimy slopes of the island, making conversation with its strange inhabitants, solving a couple of basic puzzles and unwittingly triggering a murderous event. The writing is evocative, as is the music and audio design – the whispers in the mansion will genuinely spook you. Wragg’s thinking about creating more games in the same universe: indeed, it feels like there’s plenty more to draw out here.