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Greg Buchanan’s hour-long interactive-fiction piece is quite possibly the most harrowing thing you’ll play all year. It focuses on Abigail Thoreau, the 25-year-old campaign manager to orange-skinned, small-handed American presidential candidate Truman Glass (no prizes for guessing who he’s an analogue for). As Thoreau, you watch the results of your choices spiral out of control

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