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now that IGF voting is winding down I can say that there are not one but TWO really impressive, really good deduction games coming out in the near future. generally a very big moment for the genre but some of the work being done is extremely impressive

I am genuinely astonished at the rapidity with which incremental deduction has gone from "an idea Lucas Pope made a really good game with" to "an idea that's been explored somewhat" to "full blown genre" to "kind of *the* genre interesting work is being done in"

One game is Funeral for the Sun, which has the genius premise of Roottrees-esque genealogy deduction but with a Latin American, magical realist setting. But it's more than just a single clever idea; I think the time I spent with it only scratched the surface. store.steampowered.com/app/4088360/...

The other is Inkblood, which... jesus just go look at this steam page and look at what this game looks like, and then please understand that the screenshots don't really convey what this looks like in motion, nor do they include the sickest stuff in it store.steampowered.com/app/4114100/...