Norco

Norco is a 2022 point-and-click adventure video game released for macOS and Microsoft Windows on March 24, 2022.^[1] The game takes place in an alternate version of Norco, Louisiana. Before its formal release, the game won the inaugural Tribeca Games Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021.^[2] Ports for home consoles were released on 17th November 2022. The game is set in an alternate version of Norco, a town in Louisiana, and in other portions of the state around New Orleans.^[3] The game follows Kay, a woman who has returned to Norco after her mother's death.^[4] The game's developer goes by a pseudonym, Yuts, derived from a nickname for his grandfather.^[5] Yuts spent his childhood and some of his later life in Norco.^[3] Growing up, Yuts was "frightened yet transfixed" by the landscape in and around Norco, which has been shaped by the petroleum industry and hosts a major Shell facility which has twice experienced catastrophic explosions.^[3]