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The City of Lost Children

The City of Lost Children

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You navigate the disorienting, dreamlike world of The City of Lost Children to rescue your kidnapped brother, interacting with its strange inhabitants and solving environmental puzzles to find your way forward.

Emulator

Year

1997

Developer

Language

English日本語

Game Controls

How to play The City of Lost Children

Navigate Denree through the game's environments using the D-pad. Interact with objects and characters by pressing the Circle button, which often triggers dialogue or specific actions. The X button can be used for context-sensitive actions or to perform a jump when necessary.

D-Pad
Move
Circle Button
Interact
X Button
Action/Jump
Square Button
Menu

About The City of Lost Children

The City of Lost Children is a surreal adventure game, originally released in the late 1990s for platforms including PlayStation.

In The City of Lost Children, you play as Denree, a young boy on a quest to find his abducted brother. The game plunges you into a darkly whimsical, often unsettling world that mirrors the visual style and atmosphere of the cult film it's based on. Progress is made by exploring its peculiar locales, from grimy industrial districts to eerie carnival grounds, and by piecing together the bizarre logic of its inhabitants.

Gameplay in The City of Lost Children involves careful observation and interaction. You'll need to talk to the strange denizens you encounter, often deciphering their cryptic dialogue or fulfilling odd requests. Environmental puzzles are woven into the fabric of the world; solutions are rarely straightforward and often require manipulating objects or understanding the unique rules of each area. The game prioritizes its distinctive visual presentation and its unsettling, fairy-tale-gone-wrong atmosphere over fast-paced action.

Game Tags

AdventurePuzzleSurrealAtmosphericPlayStation90sDark Fantasy

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