Scourge of the village
Scourge of The Village is a Chinese folk horror-themed text decryption game. A young female intern reporter who was inexplicably trapped in a nightmare while investigating a factory sewage discharge incident. In order to solve the mystery, she decided to go to the land of her dreams alone.
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A massacre that wiped out a village that has been left in the dust for more than ten years, a shuttle between reality and dreams. As Chen Xi returns to the ruined village, the truth of two seemingly unrelated cases is revealed...
In the game, players are forced to fall between reality and dreams;
The puzzles incorporate a large number of traditional Chinese folklore elements, such as: Five Elements, Bagua, Yin and Yang, etc...
Connect known clues and understand the plot and entries to affect scene changes by dragging, combining, and rotating text entries;
Solve every puzzle in the game and uncover the truth.
