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107 Cracking sci-fi horror Routine escapes a decade of development hell as a great reminder that patronising game design can do one

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Matt Wales @ Eurogamer.net 3 place · 12/06/2025 05:00 EDT

Cracking sci-fi horror Routine escapes a decade of development hell as a great reminder that patronising game design can do one

There's a bit early on in Routine where your progress is blocked by a blinking computer terminal demanding your personal ID number. I was stumped; maybe because I've been so coddled by modern gaming's frequent insistence on eradicating all but the most minor of friction points that - without a conspicuous Post-it note secreted in the immediate vicinity, a blatant on-screen objective marker to beckon me onward, or (sigh) a chatty companion ready to spit out the answer four seconds in - I wasn't sure how to p

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