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\nI’ve long thought<\/a> that urban exploration – the peculiar pastime of rummaging through abandoned houses – is the best video game genre that doesn’t exist yet. <\/p>\n

\nIt’s a common thread in some of my personal favourites – think Dishonored, The Last of Us, Gone Home – because of the many uninhabited homes we get to explore in those worlds. Am I a platonic voyeur? Maybe. But I’m endlessly delighted by environmental storytelling. Games that show me a kitchen littered with mouldy takeaway containers and scattered Vodka bottles are infinitely more satisfying than those that would instead give me an in-game diary page from an alcoholic. <\/p>\n

\nThis is undoubtedly where Eternal Threads’ puzzling magic lies. Despite the melodramatic opener that informs us that “we broke the world” by time-travelling all willy-nilly and releasing radiation into the time stream that changed “countless seemingly insignificant decisions throughout history”, an elegant layer of melancholy lies over Eternal Threads. The ordinariness of its people – their rooms, their shared spaces, their conversations, the letters they screw up and toss into the bin – is captured with ease. Both our world and cast are small. We explore only a single deserted home once inhabited by a handful of ordinary folks, but getting to know them isn’t just a pleasure; it’s a matter of life or death.\n<\/p>\n

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I’ve long thought that urban exploration – the peculiar pastime of rummaging through abandoned houses – is the best video game genre that doesn’t exist yet. It’s a common thread in some of my personal favourites – think Dishonored, The Last of Us, Gone Home – because of the many uninhabited homes we get to explore in those worlds. Am I a platonic voyeur? Maybe. But I’m endlessly delighted by environmental storytelling. Games that show me a kitchen littered with mouldy takeaway containers and scattered Vodka bottles are infinitely more satisfying than those that would instead give me an in-game diary page from an alcoholic. This is undoubtedly where Eternal Threads’ puzzling magic lies. Despite the melodramatic opener that informs us that “we broke the…<\/p>\n

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