What we've been playing – mansion redesigns, perseverance, and enthusiasm

19th April

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This week, Tom has been persevering with Avowed, and Bertie has been both redesigning a mansion every day, with little success, and sucking up second-hand enthusiasm.

What have you been playing?

Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.

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I found a book called the Red Prince in the game the other day. What could it mean?Watch on YouTube

I really admire the layers of this game. I’m assuming that by now, you’ll know the game’s set-up: day by day, you attempt to build a blueprint of a house in such a way that you’ll find the mysterious 46th room of it. You place a room when you touch a door handle, picking from a choice of three, and keep doing it until you run out of space or footsteps, or hem yourself in. Then you go to sleep and try it all again the next day.