The full version of NORCO is coming soon to GOG.COM. You can wishlist it here
NORCO is a Southern Gothic point & click narrative adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and verdant industrial swamps of a distorted South Louisiana. Your brother Blake has gone missing in the af...
The full version of NORCO is coming soon to GOG.COM. You can wishlist it here
NORCO is a Southern Gothic point & click narrative adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and verdant industrial swamps of a distorted South Louisiana. Your brother Blake has gone missing in the aftermath of your mother's death. In the hopes of finding him, you must follow a fugitive security cyborg through the refineries, strip malls, and drainage ditches of suburban New Orleans.
Immerse yourself in a surreal and uncanny South Louisiana
NORCO’s painterly and cinematic pixel art draws the player into its quotidian sci-fi world of disappearing swamplands, labyrinthine oil refineries, and other landscapes inspired by the titular town of Norco, Louisiana and other parts of Greater New Orleans. Sink into the rich field recordings and sound design by fmAura and a driving, post-industrial electronic score from Gewgawly I.
Unravel a mystery in a world haunted by the past and threatened by the future
What starts as a straightforward search for your missing brother quickly spirals into a multigenerational mystery. The lines between salvation, memory, technology, and nature bleed together into a uniquely compelling, contemplative narrative rooted in Southern literature, pulp fiction, and point & click adventure games both classic and contemporary.
Explore alongside sharply drawn characters with deep roots, rich backstories, and complex motives
A chaotic bayou pirate, bar-stool private detective, escaped security android, and your stuffed childhood monkey will all offer assistance in an eroding and uncertain world. Solve puzzles, fight your way past corporate security goons, and infiltrate an influencer cult squatting an abandoned mall on the outskirts of New Orleans.
The previous reviewer was upset at the dystopean, bleak setting.
Sadly they're out of touch with the genre, dystopian near-future scifi has been a mainstay sub-genre since the (19)40s.
No one is funding this stuff except the audience themselves!
Anyway, the bleak setting is a character in this game. One of the better written dystopian point-n-clicks.
Also check out God's Will be Watching,
and Virtuaverse and Born Punk for worse writing but cyberpunk aesthetics.
I've only been to Louisiana a few times but i can say it does capture the vibe very well. Stuff like the gas station fight are always really cool to see in Point-and-click games like this and the near-future setting seems really cool on paper. Unfortunately, the story just didn't draw me in at all and noticing some sprinkles of modern political nonsense tells me that its probably not going to age very well either. I wouldn't mind the backgrounds for some desktop wallpapers at least.
but one small downside for me personally is that is is not using any true low res graphics, but instead uses pixel art very loosely and pans it around etc in a normal 1080p field.
With that said there is more positives, I also do like the soundtrack quite a bit so when i can i am gonna buy the full game special edition bundle to get it all!
WHY do gamers now settle for all of this depressing "future times" dark and depressing drivil? This could have been an amazing game IF it had a little hope, dreams and light woven in to it's fabric. I am done with darkness and dreary outlooks. Time to take back our future and stop settling for preconceived, preprogrammed bs that has even filtered into gaming. I continue to wonder who is behind the funding of all of this negative bs. SMH
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