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The Painter's Wife (2020) TDM FM

City Rescue Thieves Highway/Rooftop

My old friend Andreas urgently needs my help. He asked if I could meet him at the Lion's Head Inn, our favourite retreat in a quaint part of the city called Mirkway Quarter. He’s got a small apartm... Read more

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Briefing

My old friend Andreas urgently needs my help. He asked if I could meet him at the Lion's Head Inn, our favourite retreat in a quaint part of the city called Mirkway Quarter. He’s got a small apartment nearby where he makes a modest living off paintings he sells to pompous nobles and the odd merchant.

Not long ago, his wife Lily was hired as a servant at the manor of the local alderman, one Lord Marlow. Now she hasn't been home for days. Andreas went to the manor looking for her, but the guards shoved him into the gutter and warned him not to return. Andreas is certain that something bad has happened, and I don’t think he’s wrong.

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message   Good but too big and aimless.
author:   kingofkringe | April 9, 2023, 2:50 p.m.
This level is a great technical achievement but I didn't really enjoy it all that much. I appreciated the fact that there was a lot of verticality, places to go, and places to reach, but by the end I was really exhausted with all of the mantling, and I found the level design to be fairly aimless ...

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message   Highly impressive but definitely rough around the edges
author:   skacky | July 27, 2020, 1:55 p.m.
If you're looking for a really really large city exploration mission with many areas to explore and things to do then The Painter's Wife is exactly what you want to play, and it is in my opinion one of the very best at what it does. What we have here is an entire quarter more or less neatly divid...

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message   Incredible. A new bar has been set for FM's.
author:   tristamus | July 22, 2020, 4:01 a.m.
In the past week, I've put about 6-8 hours into this one mission, on "Difficult" difficulty. I am ALMOST done, but I've yet to figure out how to deliver the papers to the Judge to convict Marlow of his crimes. This one mission is akin to almost half of some game's entire worth of play-time if ...

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message   The curse of scale
author:   peter_spy | July 12, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
The ambition of this project seems to be about scale, but it's not clear to what creative end. Great impression made by the ambiance ultimately gives way to lack of focus, clunky navigation, and cringe-worthy damsel-in-distress story.

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message   Diamond in a rough of city sandboxes
author:   Mike | July 6, 2020, 6:08 p.m.
The big and sprawling Painter’s Wife is truly diamond in a rough. It is classic city sandbox with all the nooks and crannies to explore. There is not one plot, but many – which often are interconnected in unpredictable ways and making the full impression of living district. There is a lot of vari...

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