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A deep and immersive narrative puzzle game.
Rivals is an investigative puzzle game that asks you to piece together the story of Josh and Luke.
The game is a detective puzzle scenario, in which players may inspect sources, documents, audio logs and records in order to solve the puzzles contained.
The game takes place on one screen containing all the resources. The player will piece together the story chapter by chapter, receiving validation every 5th correct chapter.
The player will experience a rich, human drama, while also engaging in the sort of logical deduction found in Return of the Obra Dinn and Her Story.
The game plays for roughly 2-3 hours and features an NG+ mode.
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