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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Elliot Gardner

A Pocket Full of Slagford – a retro-futurist take on Thatcher-era northern England

The computer generated interior of a house. A woman sits on a sofa smoking a cigarette while a young boy in a cap looks on.
Inspired by northern English culture … A Pocket Full of Slagford. Photograph: Slumps

Something is amiss in the dingy town of Slagford, and curious scamp Pip Bunting is the only one who can find out what. So quit your mithering, it’s time to discover just how grim it truly is up north.

A Pocket Full of Slagford is an upcoming retro-styled 3D puzzle adventure game set in a surreal alternative-reality near-future northern England that never escaped the clutches of Thatcherism. The story follows the misadventures of a young local lad from the eponymous Slagford after he takes ownership of a mysterious relic that lets him wreak havoc on reality.

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