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Bow Street Runner
- is a particularly well done adventure game that takes you back to Covent Garden, 1754, when crimes were many and the law enforcers were few.
As one of the titular Runners, it's up to you to solve some of the city's countless crimes. The game was created as a companion to the UK television series City of Vice, and is not only well-acted, but also takes great pains to be historically accurate. You might actually learn a thing or two as you prowl Covent Garden's seedy back streets.
Five parts of the game are now available. Each chapter is fairly short, and pretty easy, so you should be able to play through all five in one sitting. Fair warning: The first chapter is a bit on the buggy side, but the chapters smooth out after that.
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Bow Street Runner [Channel 4]
