Twin Peaks-inspired spooky private eye puzzler Silver Pines is set to deliver missing musician mystery next year

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Watch out. There's a instrumentalist enigma afoot. They've gone missing, mysteriously. So says Silver Pines, a Twin Peaks-inspired endurance fearfulness puzzler that's acceptable to get adjacent year, according to an announcement trailer that's conscionable barged into my location successful a trench coat, waving a weapon astir and demanding to cognize whether I did it.

No, I respond calmly, determination are nary missing musicians astir here. For a moment, I fearfulness helium mightiness announcement the outline of a guitar's headstock buried nether the carpet. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, helium says, arsenic each detective-ish types do. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

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I effort to distract him by asking for much accusation astir Silver Pines. It's by developers Wych Elm, helium says. You indispensable roam the tiny municipality filled with horrors to survive, doing puzzles to unlock antithetic areas and managing your resources. Arrrrrrggghhhhhh, I scream, assets management! Shhhhh, helium replies, fto maine work you the crippled synopsis to calm you down:

Private researcher Red Walker finds himself successful Silver Pines, a spot half-abandoned, half-forgotten, successful the mediate of obscurity connected a occupation to way down vanished instrumentalist Eddie Velvet. As the lawsuit begins to uncover a acheronian past, Walker soon slips into a unusual and nightmarish descent beyond his control.

The exploration's a spot Metroidvaniay, helium claims, and you'll request to find amended tools and weapons to unfastened up much bits. Ok, I reply, the roaming astir a tiny municipality arsenic a moody researcher intelligibly going done immoderate crap intrigues me, adjacent if this surely isn't pitching itself to beryllium arsenic Disco Elysiumy successful an RPG consciousness arsenic my encephalon benignant of wishes it was.

It's acceptable to get astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026, helium says, and you tin wishlist it connected Steam. Nice, I respond, hoping the ensuing awkward soundlessness volition thrust him away. He turns towards the door, takes a fewer steps, and brutally stubs his toed connected the telltale head. Watch out, I susurration arsenic helium writhes connected the floor.