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NIGHT in the Woods is one of those games that seems to insist the world’s gone mad.
Not because you find yourself in the shoes of a pansexual cat with spaghetti legs who pokes severed arms with sticks for fun. And not because non-anthropomorphic animals aren’t triggering an existential crisis (Mr Wharton the pigeon is apparently quite unfazed by ordinary pigeons on the street).
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