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Abermore

Developer Four Circle Interactive

Publisher Fireshine Games

Format PC

Release Out now

Generally in stealth games, quiet is a good thing.

But too often Abermore is eerily silent: no music, no ambient noise, just the occasional sound of your footsteps. It’s hard to escape the feeling that someone forgot to connect up the soundtrack. That would certainly be consistent with everything else. The achievements that unlock randomly when we launch the game; the guards who walk into, and occasionally partially through, walls; the cursor that lodges itself in the middle of our screen, blocking the reticule.

This game, it seems, has had a. This game not only feels unfinished, it feels .

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