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Blackout: The Darkest Night is a mystery CYOA well worth a few spins

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A screenshot from Blackout: The Darkest Night, arranged like a page in a comic book, showing the character looking at themselves in the mirror in a public bathroom, then having a vision of strange symbols appearing suddenly on the wall
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Despite it forming a sizeable portion of my favourite games ever, I don't play all that much interactive fiction. It's a strange realm of games. It asks very little, and yet is also sort of hard to get into.

Blackout: The Darkest Night is a "choose your own adventure" style piece with some light jigsaw puzzles. Where even some of my favourites took a bit of time and focus to draw me in, Blackout grabbed me before I was even sure what it was.

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