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Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition

This game lets you try on the role of a Supernatural Newspaper Agency boss and editor. The world it takes place in is a dark and haunted one, with ghosts, zombies, monsters and even shapeshifting murderers…

30 30 September 2016

Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition is an adventure developed by Sinister Systems, released 30 September 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition is

Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition is an adventure game developed by Sinister Systems and released in 2016. It was published by Sometimes You. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This game lets you try on the role of a Supernatural Newspaper Agency boss and editor. The world it takes place in is a dark and haunted one, with ghosts, zombies, monsters and even shapeshifting murderers, pretending to be human after they have stolen their victims' bodies or infiltrated the humanity. It was inspired heavily by the works of H.P.Lovecraft and it builds on the atmosphere of uncertainty and noir of the 1940s. Send your sextet of weathered journalists, detectives and occult specialists to investigate murder, affair, and horror in the Town. Each time, the story will be different. Sometimes, a werewolf is shredding innocent (and less innocent) victims to pieces and it is your…
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How it plays

Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 38 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition launched on 30 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, Battlefield 1, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI and Sid Meier's Civilization VI. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Persona 5, Battlefield 1, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, Sid Meier's Civilization VI.

Official trailer

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When did Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition come out?
Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition was released on 30 September 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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