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Ice-Pick Lodge's 2019 horror themed role playing game, in which Artemy Burakh, a surgeon, returns to his hometown at his father's request just as a plague called the Sand Pest breaks out. The game is framed as a play, with a theater director who comments on your performance. Time is what you lack. Play runs in day and night cycles, and time is limited, so you choose which tasks to pursue each day. Meanwhile you manage hunger, thirst, exhaustion, health, plague immunity and reputation, which is tracked separately for each district. Healing is slow work: tinctures identify infected body layers, the matching antibiotic is then given, and mistakes can worsen a patient's condition. Dying gives a permanent penalty that grows with each death. A day too short for everything still makes each choice a trade today.
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