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Posted Mar 17, 2026 at 8:07 PM UTC

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Time to get cracking (some codes).

One of my favorite games so far this year is Inkle’s cryptic mystery TR-49, and on April 7th the game is launching on the Switch so Nintendo fans can check it out.

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