Complicated and winding, Norco is a game that defies and embodies the genres it's assembled from. Part existential RPG, part 90s style point & click, Norco is a painful and intelligent game to its core. You don't play Norco to be happy, or to enrich yourself per say, but because it reflects humanity at a very universal level.

Your enemies may occasionally be security guards or impressionable cultists, but the ones driving them, you, and everyone else in Norco are more present and dangerous. Religious paranoia fuels radical violence, poverty informs where you go and what solutions you can partake in, and the constant threat of a world ravaged by humanity, where flood waters rise constantly at your front door, forces into you a dread that you can't just turn-based battle away.

To reduce it down, Norco is WEIRD. And I mean the good kind of weird. The kind you'll be thinking about for weeks after, and that makes you want to find a way to express the feelings in you that you can't ever seem to say right. For all its technical jank and dubious narrative conclusions, Norco is a game that will make you want and make you fear how badly you do so, and I mean that as the highest praise.