Following World War II, two Bletchley Park engineers built a machine to decode the nature of reality. They lovingly nurtured their Textual Reassociator for fifty years, feeding in an assortment of books, journals, and other writings to expand the rudimentary computer's abilities. By the time they understood what they had created, it was too late. On April 7, Nintendo Switch players can get lost in the machine when inkle's narrative deduction game TR-49 arrives on the Nintendo eShop. Preorder today for just $6.99 USD (or local equivalent): https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/tr-49-switch/
TR-49 debuted on Steam and iOS in January with viral success resulting in inkle's biggest game launch in the studio's fourteen-year history. The game currently has an 83% review average on Metacritic and 95% positive user reviews on Steam.ASSETS
REVIEW COPIES Nintendo Switch review keys will be available this week; to request one, please email pr@inklestudios.com and tell us which region you need (NA, EU, or AUS/NZ). We also have keys for Steam and iOS.
ABOUT TR-49
A voice is saying your name. A WWII-era machine, long hidden in a church basement, whirs to life. Through a crackling speaker a man asks you to find a stolen book. He only knows the title. Time is running out. The machine, created by Bletchley Park engineers Cecil Caulderly and Beatrice Dooler, contains a vast archive of obscure books, letters, and journals fed in over the span of fifty years in an attempt to crack the code of reality. As their lives fell apart, the machine kept working. Navigate the computer's archive. Link its obscure texts and uncover its creators' secrets. Communicate with the man behind the speaker to figure out your role in this mystery. Find the book at the core of the machine -- before it's too late.
Written and created by the award-winning team behind Heaven's Vault, Overboard!, and A Highland Song, TR-49 takes inspiration from narrative deduction games like Type Help, Her Story, The Roottrees are Dead, and Return of the Obra Dinn, and from audio dramas like The Magnus Archives and ars PARADOXICA.