When I accidentally glitched through a wall and found the narrator I knew this was special.

Incredible vibes, confident presentation. A dead-end town playing idly with its lighter as a sickness slowly engulfs it. The calm before the storm, before the death throes kick in. Systems of power play a big role in every story in Boreal Tenebrae, tangibly through threats of violence and death but also intangibly through poverty, desperation and exhaustion. The boss at the local factory spends his time crushing unions even as he plans to close down and move elsewhere. The mayor talks a big game about unity while packing his bags to leave in the middle of the night. All the while the broken cast characters fighting against the oncoming tide of malicious magical realism with whatever hasn't been stripped away from them.

Act 1 is astoundingly cheap on Steam and Itch right now, and it's also a part of the BLM Bundle if you've got that.