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The Yawhg: an end of the world diary with leeches

RPS is having an Apocalypse Day! We’re celebrating the end of the world and games about it. Check back tomorrow, if we’re still all here.

The Yawhg is a game about what happens if the end of the world is coming but you don t know that, and thus don t care, and carry on doing whatever it was you were going to do anyway. Would it help? Would it matter? Would you survive?

It’s a PC game but plays like a board game, almost. There are four characters who take it in turns to do different things around the town (six weeks before the apocalypse = six turns per character), and you have to pick at least two. You can play alone, but fun with a friend is fun doubled, so I played The Yawhg with Colm Ahern from VideoGamer.

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