

“The cool thing about our game is that it clearly takes place in San Francisco, but the visuals have castles and all sorts of fantastical elements,” said creator Hanford Lemoore. Instead, animated drawings from their sketchbook dance around the screen as the flashbacks play, kind of like the opening credits of a Pixar movie. Kenzie and Michael, who are played by real-life couple Bryce Dallas Howard (“The Mandalorian,” “Jurassic World”) and Seth Gabel (“American Horror Story,” “Fringe”), are never really shown.

To progress through this storyline, the player explores and manipulates the puzzle version of the city.īut this isn’t just another run-of-the-mill romance.
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Released by Annapurna Interactive on Tuesday for Steam, PS4 and PS5, “Maquette” is a first-person, story-based puzzle game that brings an animated version of San Francisco to life, inviting the player to follow the fictional couple as they experience a meet-cute in a coffee shop, fall for one another and move on. While he revisits the memories they shared, you approach a landmark that’s highly reminiscent of - but not quite - the Palace of Fine Arts. He discovers the sketchbook that he and his former girlfriend, Kenzie, used to draw in together during afternoons spent at backyard patios in the Mission District. The game begins in an oddly familiar moonlit garden.Ī mellow cover of Eric Burdon and the Animals’ “San Franciscan Nights” softly plays in the background, and visible dialogue from a character named Michael appears in the scenery around you.
