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Firework is a creepy, hidden horror gem from China, and if you don’t have room for another 100+ hour game, does it have an offering for you?
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Firework is a creepy, hidden horror gem from China, and if you don’t have room for another 100+ hour game, does it have an offering for you?

The hidden gems of Game Pass

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We’ll be uncovering the hidden gems of Game Pass over the coming weeks, digging up all the obscure and esoteric games hidden in our subscription and seeing how they play.

Did you know that in China, November is the real spooky season? This is probably not the case, since I just made it up, but it would be a convenient transition to talk about it. Fireworksa scary horror game from Chinese studio Shiying, and one of the hidden gems hidden in the depths of Game Pass.

There has been a fire at a funeral in a remote mountain village somewhere in the Chinese hinterland, and you, rookie cop Li Lixun, are the man who must solve the case. This isn’t because of any Sherlock Holmes gift for copying, mind you, but rather because Officer Li was born on the right date and time to become a sort of walker. thin place– those places in the world where the fabric between the physical and spiritual worlds frays, letting in all manner of spooks and specters.

Li Lixun reads graffiti on the wall, reading

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In other words, Officer Li sees dead people, which will be helpful in solving a case that revolves around a series of suspicious deaths that have shaken up the city’s recent history. The funeral that caught fire? The man in the coffin was a local trader named Wang Jincai, and there are certainly rumors circulating that his untimely death had something to do with him disparaging one of the victims of anothermassacre a little less recent. Perhaps his offensive vengeful spirit?

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