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Tyler Colp

A $5 Wikipedia-like mystery game consumed me for 2 straight hours as I dug for clues about a little town and its big weird tree

A cropped screenshot of Lost Wiki: Kozlovka. A fuzzy black and white photo of a tree with symbols carved into its trunk is displayed via a retro computer interface.

Never trust a tree with a name like "Draken Oak". That is the lesson I took away from Lost Wiki: Kozlovka, a game where you solve a mystery by reading Wikipedia-like database entries. I took one look at that tree and knew nothing good was going on in the little Eastern European town I was investigating.

After a little over two hours, I had learned exactly what was up with that tree and the generational deceit that has haunted Kozlovka since the late 1800s. I knew this wasn't a normal job the moment my client told me I wasn't looking deep enough and sent me instructions on how to access entries redacted by the government. What I found was a story happening in between the lines of each wiki entry, one that would span decades and eventually come right back around to me, a journalist investigating the town in the '90s.

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