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ADVENTURE/RPG

SHADOWS OVER LOATHING

ASYMMETRIC PUBLICATIONS

PC/MAC: $23

AGE RANGE: TEEN

PLAY TIME: 20+ HOURS

PLAYERS: 1

It’s the 1920s, and strange things are afoot in Ocean City. Your character has been summoned there by his Uncle Murray, who owns an antique shop. When you arrive, Uncle Murray is missing, and you’ll have to follow a trail of cursed antiques to find him and unravel a Lovecraftian mystery. “Cursed antique recovery” is a premise that’s been used before. But in Shadows Over Loathing, Asymmetric Publications makes it their own, through wit,

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