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PataNoir

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.

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Positive (10) - 80% of the 10 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Jun 1, 2016

Developer:

Simon Christiansen

Publisher:

SiChris Productions

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By #dkgame March 8, 2021

“Danish Interactive Fiction game by Simon Christiansen. Won the 2011 XYZZY award for Best Puzzles and placed 5th at the 17th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.”

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	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔	✔

Includes 19 Steam Achievements

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Title: PataNoir
Genre: Adventure, Indie

Developer: Simon Christiansen

Publisher: SiChris Productions

Release Date: Jun 1, 2016

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Winner, Best Puzzles - 2011 XYZZY Awards

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Reviews

“For those who love language, PataNoir is like a breath of fresh air...a reminder of the beauty of a complex sentence and the power of carefully chosen words.”
JustAdventure

“PataNoir is strange, unusual, at times frustrating, but creates an amazing surreal landscape in such a short time.”
OPNoobs

“...a nigh on unmissable adventure that's simultaneously a perfect entry to the world of text-based gaming and refreshingly different to satisfy the most hardened of genre veterans.”
IndieGames

About This Game

Description
"The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle."

PataNoir is a homage to the classic stories of hard-boiled private investigators with a knack for describing everything with complex similes and metaphors. In PataNoir, you solve problems by manipulating the hard-boiled metaphors used by the main character to make sense of the world in which he lives.

The game is an old-school text adventure, in which you type commands to perform actions.

Features

An interactive noir mystery to experience and solve
Innovative interactive fiction gameplay in which the metaphors you live by become tools to solve the mystery
Simulated book interface
Atmospheric illustrations by Lauri Ahonen and Tom Siddell
Original theme song by postmodern rock musician William Steffey

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: 7
Storage: 100 MB available space

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