December 8, 2019 04:00 pm
Jason Godbey
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/8/20994154/discolored-review-apple-arcade-surreal-spy-myst
Discolored is a surrealist spy thriller by way of Myst
Jason Godbey
It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
At the start of this year, I wrote about What Never Was, a first-person puzzle game similar to Myst or Gone Home, though on a much smaller scale. In the game, you are confined to a single attic room where all of the puzzles and storytelling takes place. Discolored is similar, except you are confined to an entire deserted and desaturated desert diner.
In Discolored, you play what seems to be some sort of secret agent working to return color to a world that has mostly become monotone due to some strange force. There is a 1960s...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/8/20994154/discolored-review-apple-arcade-surreal-spy-myst
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