- Puzzle, Adventure, Visual Novel, Drama
Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and A Highland Song.
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Grave, contemplative, earnest and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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PC GamerAbbie StoneJan 202688/100Inkle builds a weirdo computer for the ages, then let you use it to solve a beautifully-written mystery. Outstanding.
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The Punished BacklogAmanda TienJan 20269.6/10I was absolutely riveted by TR-49. I played in two long sessions, finishing the game in about seven hours. However, I wanted more — and so I did something I almost never do, and spent extra time getting 100% of the achievements, discovering multiple endings. TR-49 achieves everything it sets out to do. Furthermore, for its amazingly low price point of $6.99, TR-49 is an absolute bargain for an experience this good. If you love books, weird games, games that make you think, great audio design, code-breaking, war-time stories, and/or poignant reflections on what it means to be alive in the world, then you'll love TR-49. I could hardly bear to put TR-49 down, and once you try it, neither will you.
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SoftpediaJan 20269/10TR-49 is delightful, a game that takes an interesting core concept and builds an intriguing and complex story around it. The two parallel narratives unfold slowly, while the atmosphere remains dark and mysterious. The voice acting, both for the protagonists and the people whose writing was fed into the machine, is impressive.
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Slant MagazineJan 20263.5/5 starsThey don’t just present an overarching series of arguments over the very purpose and place of fiction so much as they embody it. As the game puts it, “The world is the sum of our beliefs,” and in that light, TR-49 becomes a world unto itself, a heartbreakingly beautiful artifact of an alternative history.
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Final WeaponSaras RajpalFeb 20263.5/5 starsTR-49 is an intricately complex puzzle game, for better and for worse. On the one hand, the overabundance of dialogue that relies on exposition, plus obtuse puzzles that emphasize trial and error rather than the deductive reasoning said to be the game's core, is often really frustrating. On the other hand, the satisfaction you feel when you solve a puzzle all on your own, the multiple endings, and the affordable price make it a game that I'm excited to play again at some point down the line, in spite of my frustrations with it.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- inkle
- Publisher
- inkle
- Released
- January 21, 2026
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Text, Auditory
- Engine
- Godot
IGDB rating 8.2/10 from 2 ratings.
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