Not my preferred style of pixel graphics. Sorry.

The graphics are about as appealing as the living conditions.

Rules book:

#1. Never drop your plague mask.
#2. No corp is left behind.
#3. A good sleep is a must.

Most of them seem fine to me, I just don't know what they were thinking with those blocky character portraits.

Bubonic plague isn't my preferred style of fun, and I suspect that there aren't going to be cats in this game.

I'm leaning towards passing on this one.

It's a bit hard for me to describe it, but it's like the game isn't consistently pixelated? Like some of it is, and some was smeared with the same "vaseline filter" like that Simon the Sorcerer remaster. And maybe it's just me, but there's something weird about the angles of the various "levels" of the street. Makes it look like the pavement is a wall behind the street lamps with the buildings on top of it.

Why not? With so many rats in these times, surely there had to be lots of cats too...

I see what you mean on Simon but this one doesn't look that bad to me. I agree the street is off in this one. According to wikipedia the City Corporation thought it might have something to do with the dogs and cats and killed a bunch of them :(. Although there are dogs in the game, possibly there are some cats too.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/11/08/cats-mass-killings-plague/

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According to European folklore, if a black cat crosses your path, you've run out of luck. The association between strolling felines and terrible misfortune likely comes from the tradition of the "witches' familiar," a small animal assistant, often a black cat.

But according to some social media posts, the connections between black cats and paganism run a bit deeper. These posts claim that during the Middle Ages, cats were considered Satanic and evil because of a 1233 papal decree, so Europeans rounded up cats across the continent and dispatched them in mass killings. But the cats had their revenge from beyond the grave — their pest control prowess would have led to fewer rats had their population not decreased, and in the next century or two, more cats and fewer rats could have saved people from the Black Death, the most devastating outbreak of plague in recorded history.

But as tidy as this story seems, it dates to the late-1990s rather than the mid-1200s.
<and so the story goes, a couple of pages, notably>
you might assume that people could have started killing the cats because they brought the plague. Luckily for the cat lovers out there, there’s no evidence for that either. The only notable, documented example of mass cat killing that has any semblance of truth to it is from Paris in the 1700s. In the book “The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History,” American historian Robert Darnton dedicates a chapter to explaining the titular event. It had nothing to do with the bubonic plague.
Where Did This Idea Come from?

According to historian Mike Dash, like many common myths found on the internet, it originated in the late 90s or early 2000s. <<<<<<<=======

Interesting readings. Thanks for sharing! :)

Yeah. The graphics really aren't great, but the "perspective" is, what really repels me most.

If you have a look at my attachment, it seems like there are four planes (A, B, C, D) you look upon.
Two of these planes are floor planes (B, D), the other two (A, C) are walls.

Or rather: in a perspectival correct drawing, (B and D) would work as floor planes and (A and C) would work as walls.

However - here only A works as an actual wall.
The other three (B, C and D) all work as floor planes.
(though D is a bit iffy...the direction, in which the cobblestones are laid (horizontal on plane C, vertical on plane D), implies another kink between C and D, but if we ignore that difference in pattern, C + D could work as one plane)

I mean: look at the street lamps, the people, the cart and the crates.

All the lamp posts, some crates and some of the people stand on plane B,
while the cart, some other crates, a body and another guy stand on plane C.
That's physically impossible.

That's almost Escher-esque.

You people be slackin'! ... Bring out your dead!

This. That's exactly what I meant. Thanks for the visual aid.

It's like they went for the same view as Beat Cop but somehow messed it up almost beyond recognition.

(by the way, Beat Cop is a fun little game, nothing mind blowing, but well worth it at this price)