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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
SUBSTANCE | #10 | 4.286 | 4.286 |
Overall | #15 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
STYLE | #16 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Welcome To Crime City USA is a sandbox for FIST centered around urban rot in a very Nightvale-ish sort of way. Youngstown is going through a severe economic downturn, and that economic downturn is making it supernaturally weird.
The PDF is 24 pages, with a redacted, photo-edited layout that's visually quite busy but still clean and easy to read.
Writing-wise, everything here is accessible and easy to follow. It's also got a strong authorial voice, and a knack for dancing between horror and humor.
Content-wise, there's a variety of missions to take on, and there's factions and lore you can dip into, but the strength of this module is really how authentic it feels. It's written by an IRL Youngstown resident, and in a genre rife with wizards and dragons it's rare you get to see a writer fully flex by working with something as known and primal as their hometown.
Simply put, if you like evocative settings, or just stuff that's written well, you should get this. It's designed for FIST, but the material is compelling enough that it would be worth adapting to any other modern supernatural system.
Though it makes the briefings kinda rough to deliver, and FIST is not the SCP Foundation, generally l really enjoyed the evocative use of redaction here.