I can’t bear to play much of free horror game Toy Box, but I love the concept of pulling talking toys apart | Gaming

Toy Box sounds like a very Xmassy game, but then you watch a trailer, and realise that it is not very Xmassy at all. It’s a free visual novel with a macabre puzzling element. The setup is that you’re a toy inspector working for a jovial Grand Toy Maker, his face hidden above the top of the screen. Your job is to disassemble toys – five in all – according to his eldritch written instructions, and either “salvage” them or “sentence” them to the incinerator.

The toys can be “sentenced” because the toys appear to be alive. They talk to you and share their memories as you pull them apart. The obvious thing to do is salvage them all – after all, who’d throw a miniature talking ballerina in the furnace? But the toys are Not Nice. Their talk is of suffering and malice, darkness…more

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