A standard announcement for The Ordinary Case of Margaret Luoni 

• Announcements by Jack Allin
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Hand-drawn point-and-click sci-fi detective mystery coming soon to Windows PC on Steam

Even after the machines take over the world, they'll never get rid of humans for good, as they'll still need us to do the dirty work they don't want to do themselves. (So, pretty much the opposite of the way things are now.) Fortunately for adventure game fans, one of those unwanted tasks is solving crimes, such as the whodunit in Robohamster's upcoming The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni. 

Sometime in the future, when virtually all plants have died out, robots are commonplace and mankind has become a "lower caste" expected to "do the work that hardly anyone else wants to do." A detective named Dirk is one such lowly human assigned to investigate crimes, and his latest case is the murder of a lab employee. To identify the killer, Dirk will need to teleport between various planets in the Cat Head Nebula, interrogate witnesses and potential suspects, and find the evidence needed to bring the perpetrator to justice. Along the way, he just might uncover the answers to other burning questions you never knew you wanted to know, such as: "What color do the Sumlings hate? ... And in what order did the great Blork Gnarbs draw his pictures?"

The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni is entirely hand-drawn, presented in a cartoony point-and-click slideshow style that bears a resemblance to the Rusty Lake series. And here too there will be a variety of quirky characters to interact with, inventory items to collect and puzzles to solve during the course of your investigation. You'll also want to keep an eye open for Galactic Handbooks, which will aid in your interrogations. How you approach the case is up to you, as "there are no obvious solutions here," and your decisions will determine which of the two different endings you get.  

The game's original June target date has come and gone, but The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni is now listed as "coming soon" on Steam for Windows PC, with the option to volunteer for playtesting ahead of time.

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