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Because Microsoft<\/strong> clearly didn’t think that its Xbox Game Pass<\/strong> offering was decent enough already, the company has just added a surprise three more games to the service in the form of the gorgeous, hand-drawn puzzles of Gorogoa<\/strong>, the shipwrecked action-adventure of Olija and the 2.5D side-scrolling puzzle-platforming of The Pedestrian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Let’s go through them one by one: first up, it’s Gorogoa, a puzzle game from Annapurna Interactive that sells itself as “an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts.”<\/p>\n

The gameplay of Gorogoa is wholly original, comprised of lavishly illustrated panels that players arrange and combine in imaginative ways to solve puzzles. It comes off as impeccably simple, yet satisfyingly complex.<\/p>\n

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Because Microsoft clearly didn’t think that its Xbox Game Pass offering was decent enough already, the company has just added a surprise three more games to the service in the form of the gorgeous, hand-drawn puzzles of Gorogoa, the shipwrecked action-adventure of Olija and the 2.5D side-scrolling puzzle-platforming of The Pedestrian. Let’s go through them one by one: first up, it’s Gorogoa, a puzzle game from Annapurna Interactive that sells itself as “an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts.” The gameplay of Gorogoa is wholly original, comprised of lavishly illustrated panels that players arrange and combine in imaginative ways to solve puzzles. It comes off as impeccably simple, yet satisfyingly complex. Read more…<\/p>\n

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