Resolution: Korsakovia

Resolution writes: "Korsakovia is The Chinese Room’s attempt to merge Dear Esther’s surreal storytelling with something more resembling a traditional game. Each of their mods is part of lead designer Dan Pinchbeck’s ongoing research project at the University of Portsmouth, examining the new ways in which the first-person engine can be used to communicate ideas with the player. You can read a lot more about it here, and there’ll be some more specifics below. Lewis Denby and Fraser McMillan have been playing Korsakovia, which releases on Saturday. Both found it so interesting that they stayed up late talking about it. Here’s what they said."