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"Third person",
"Book of Travels",
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"textContent": "I've long been an embarrassed fan of Book of Travels, the \"tiny MMO\" with heady artistic influences from Swedish indies Might & Delight. It's a world of enchanted string, vast cutaway forests, tinkling tea sets, and sleepy quasi-Orientalist cities. Our former news writer Lauren Morton called it \"the cure for my break-up with MMOs\" back in 2021. But it's never quite accomplished its ambitions, with the developers laying off around 25 staff following a difficult early access launch, and postponing the rollout of new areas and features.\n\nRead more",
"title": "Beautiful, flawed MMO Book of Travels is now a $5 singleplayer RPG, in a break from the industry trend of killing off struggling online games"
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