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      Kôna

      Kôna means snow in the Cree language.

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      An October night in 70s Quebec. Carl Faubert finds it hard to picture W. Hamilton, a wealthy landowner fattened on truffles and Chardonnay, sitting between a quart of oil and a pile of newspapers in a general store. But this is where Carl will meet his client - if he can find it in the snowstorm.

      Carl uses the Polaroid camera below the glove box to document evidence he comes across. As you gather these pieces of the puzzle, the camera will help put them together.

      It's the beginning of a long October night in 1970 and Hamilton apparently expects me to find this general store out in the wilderness of Northern Quebec, decades before GPS-navigation in cars will become commonplace.

      Members of the local Cree community are upset with Hamilton, who they claim has desecrated their sacred land to increase the profits of his copper mines. Shortly after the allegations are made, the industrialists' summer residence and hunting manor are subjected to vandalism and theft. Hamilton asks war veteran and private investigator Carl Faubert to find the culprits.

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      When we pull up to the general store and park by the gas pumps we're puzzled by the absence of cars in the parking lot. It's not until we reach the entrance that we notice the broken windows and marks from claws that have dug deep in the woodwork of the locked door.

      We find the back door unlocked next to a diesel generator that made icicles out of the snow on the roof before it was shut off. On the store shelves are empty jerry-cans, tin cans with labels that read maize, tomatoes, crab... and coke in glass bottles. Shattered glass crunches underfoot.

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      "Carl must realize that there is no one here," a male voice comments in slightly patronising French. The narrator injects witty observations and adds depth through commentary that indie developer Parabole says varies on your whereabouts and actions. The developer promises a worthy English narrator alongside the French, but it may be a challenge to copy the peculiar charm of the original narrator.

      After Hamilton fails to make an appearance, Carl begins to knock on doors, only to find that the neighbouring inhabitants are also gone. It's up to you to investigate these disappearances.

      Carl takes Instagram-worthy snaps of evidence and with enough Polaroids in hand he can replay the scenes of the past. When he daydreams, you're sent back in time and can play through the scene and sort out what happened.

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      Bits of paper with unreadable cursive can contain information that helps solve the puzzle. And if you push the remains of a bunk bed in an abandoned cottage, you uncover a hole in the floor that you can climb down into. But to unravel the mystery of these disappearances, mere exploration is not enough: you must figure out how the pieces fit together.

      When we flipped the switch on the generator behind the station, a control panel inside lit up and let us fill a jerry-can we took off the shelf with gasoline. We left no cash and lugged this thing around without a second-thought until we found a snow scooter by a cottage.

      The snow scooter slaloms between the pines, its hum no more than a whisper in the snowstorm. Ahead, there's a wooden bridge. A pack of wolves scurry past - they're too far away to give chase. Taken with nature, we realize too late that the bridge has collapsed. We've no option but to open the throttle wide and hope that the metal beast we ride can make it over the ridge. As the front ski lifts off from the planks, we realize that won't happen: we've hit the bridge from an angle - we'll reach the other side, but too low for the scooter to land on the bridge. Just before Carl slams against the bridge on the other side, the screen goes black. The demo is over.

      Kôna supports Oculus Rift. It's an episodic first-person survival horror that's set to come in four parts. Kickstarter backers financed the first part last month. Each part takes around an hour - two if you're keen to explore. The first episode will be out in the second quarter of 2015. Shorten the wait by trying the demo, which is available through Kickstarter.

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