Hexcraft: Harlequin Fair is a small, bizarre mix of Deus Ex's gameplay, Bloodlines' vibe, and Morrowind's stats, and if that doesn't make you sit bolt upright we're very different people

A dead-eyed man, rendered as a sprite, stands staring into the camera in a food court.

There is a place, cursed and dark, sprawling and unknowable, where the doomed roam and monsters lurk. It's a land of magic and fortune. Get lucky, and you could spend the rest of your life in luxury. Lose out, and you'll end up just another corpse in the streets.

It's called ‘Toronto’, in the fantasy realm of ‘Canada’, and it's the setting for Hexcraft: Harlequin Fair, an ugly-beautiful RPG and immersive sim from dev Oleander Garden. In an always-moonlit Hogtown, you play some kind of amateur alchemist/warlock/domestic terrorist on a quest to, well, do whatever, really. There's not a great deal of direction. Instead, Hexcraft just presents you with a meaty jumble of mechanics, plus some estradiol, and sends you out into the deep, dark world.