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Budget charm makes body-burying oddly enjoyable in Plague: London 1665

Carry miasma home

Holding a corpse next to a dug grave.
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/WASD Games

A long time ago there was a plague, and I have deleted 23 variations on the bitter, accusatory end of this sentence.

Wouldn't it be a jolly time to gather the dead from the streets, haul them to the graveyard, and bury them for what seems like relatively good money? Gosh, the government even provide a cart for free. In Plague Colon London 1665, you might be better protected proportionate to contemporary medical knowledge than BUT ANYWAY HO HO LAUGHTER GUFFAW.

Counter-intuitively, this is, if not quite jolly, a satisfying job simulation with a strong but unintrusive narrative and a slightly primitive low-fi charm.

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