And I wasn’t being rude; far from it!

I was just so engrossed in the game’s mixture of side-scrolling platforming and first-person puzzling.

Keep this under surveillance, because I think it’s going to be a real hit when it lands.

American Arcadia is the next game from Call Of The Sea developers Out Of The Blue.

The citizens of Arcadia live a happy, fulfilling life!

I was genuinely gripped from the moment I stepped into Trevor’s shoes.

One section saw me enter a dark warehouse, with malfunctioning spotlights inspired by the ever-eery 2D platformer Inside.

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What I hadn’t anticipated was the ol' switcheroo.

That weird voice I heard at the start?

Rain lashed the windows and I watched the feeds of security cameras that tracked each corridor.

The secondary protagonist in American Arcadia, in a first person view in an office with computer monitors

I had to disable these cameras, then get the keycode to jump into the control room.

A wide view of a plaza in American Arcadia, with huge statues of swans in front of a giant window