Discworld Noir (1999)
Discworld Noir is a 1999 adventure video game made by Teeny Weeny Games.
Discworld Noir is a point-and-click adventure set in Ankh-Morpork, the teeming, morally flexible metropolis at the center of Terry Pratchett's Discworld. You play Lewton, the city's first and only private investigator, hired for a case that pulls him into the occult underground. The game takes the hardboiled detective template, narration, femme fatale, rain-soaked streets, and plants it inside a world built on parody and philosophical deflation. Pratchett co-wrote the script, which means the comedy earns its moments and the darkness earns its own.
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What is Discworld Noir about?
Discworld Noir is a point-and-click adventure set in Ankh-Morpork, the teeming, morally flexible metropolis at the center of Terry Pratchett's Discworld. You play Lewton, the city's first and only private investigator, hired for a case that pulls him into the occult underground. The game takes the hardboiled detective template, narration, femme fatale, rain-soaked streets, and plants it inside a world built on parody and philosophical deflation. Pratchett co-wrote the script, which means the comedy earns its moments and the darkness earns its own.
When was Discworld Noir released?
Discworld Noir was released on 5 July 1999.
Who made Discworld Noir?
Discworld Noir was made by Teeny Weeny Games.
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A few thoughts on Discworld Noir
The Discworld canon in prose is the obvious companion: Baldur's Gate III shares the tone of finding real stakes inside a world that treats its genre with intelligence, where jokes and genuine threat occupy the same space without canceling each other.
Dark cities and moral ambiguity
Settings saturated with corruption, mystery, and the sense that clean answers are a luxury. The city itself as antagonist.