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Have You Played The Painscreek Killings?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

I m super into murder mysteries and wandering around falsely idyllic towns, so The Painscreek Killings really spoke to me. There are red phone boxes but dollar signs, yet something about it still feels so quintessentially British. Little did I know that I would get so deep into this mystery that I would end up filling just over 10 A4 sides of paper, with notes scribbled everywhere from the margin to the edge of the pages. It s safe to say this game ate me up whole.

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