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Blue Prince Is Not Scary
Unless you’re afraid of math.
Whereas a number of roguelike games — like Hades or Balatro, for example — inspire a kind of frantic, addictive gameplay, Blue Prince ’s leisurely pace allows each run to feel rewarding as opposed to compulsory. Blue Prince lacks jump scares or creepy noises or a spooky presence tracing your steps, but a handful of cutscenes that occur in some rooms conjure a sense of dread. Reaching the billiard room is a little bit like studying for the GRE, but having sunk tens of hours into the game, I now feel like I’m better at math than I ever was, even better than when I nearly failed AP Calculus.
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