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<\/figure>\n The unnerving tone of Geography Of Robot\u2019s Southern Gothic point-n-click adventure Norco<\/em> fascinates me. Its conflation of a recognisable 21st-century Louisiana, and dystopian science fiction, creates an oppressive darkness that weighs on my mind as I click through the game\u2019s \u201cmind-map\u201d menu, where memories and ideas can be connected via dialogue choices. Closing that down to remember I was standing in a regular kitchen, the microwave in the corner possibly containing a cockroach shell somewhere in its works, was dizzying.<\/p>\n Clearly taking some heavy direction from Disco Elysium<\/em>, including the formatting of its text in panels on the left or right of the screen, Norco<\/em> is a stunning piece of magical realism fiction. On its surface, this is a story about a woman in her 20s, Kay, returning to her childhood home in the aftermath of her mother\u2019s dying of cancer. Her brother is wayward, missing, the house is still alive with her mother\u2019s half-finished chores, and, well, there\u2019s a robot in the backyard.<\/p>\n