{"id":131013,"date":"2023-01-04T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-143209"},"modified":"2023-01-04T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T18:30:00","slug":"lucasarts-fans-take-note-the-excavation-of-hobs-barrow-is-coming-to-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/lucasarts-fans-take-note-the-excavation-of-hobs-barrow-is-coming-to-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucasarts Fans, Take Note: &#8216;The Excavation Of Hob&#8217;s Barrow&#8217; Is Coming To Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8dfc6db760383\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8dfc6db760383\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8dfc6db760383\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"1FeDHVZREvY\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If we were tasked with naming the three creepiest things in the world, in order, it would be: Pointing, clicking, and Yorkshire. Finally, <em>at last<\/em>, someone has made a game with all three, and it&#8217;s called <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/excavation_of_hobs_barrow\">The Excavation Of Hob&#8217;s Barrow<\/a><\/strong>. Anyone who&#8217;s ever enjoyed pointing, clicking, Yorkshire, and horrible eldritch monstrosities should be sure to check it out when it points and clicks its way onto Switch very soon.<\/p>\n<p>The game takes place in 19th century England, in the remote village of Bewlay, as city girl and archaeologist Thomasina Bateman arrives to investigate a mysterious barrow (read: burial mound) out on the desolate moors. Unsurprisingly, the townsfolk aren&#8217;t happy to have someone new in their village \u2014 cue a lot of Hot Fuzz-like &#8220;yer not from around &#8216;ere&#8221;, except in a Yorkshire accent. Thomasina has to bargain, bribe, and bother people to get permission to excavate for her (thrilling) book about England&#8217;s barrows. But she might come to rue the effort&#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><\/aside>\n<p>Hob&#8217;s Barrow was easily one of the best narrative experiences of 2022, with publishing backing from the masters of modern adventure point-and-clicks, Wadjet Eye Games (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/unavowed\">Unavowed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/primordia\">Primordia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/old_skies\">Old Skies<\/a>), and now it can be one of the best narrative experiences of 2023 as well, when it comes out on January 25th for the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube If we were tasked with naming the three creepiest things in the world, in order, it would be: Pointing, clicking, and Yorkshire. Finally, at last, someone has made a game with all three, and it&#8217;s called The Excavation Of Hob&#8217;s Barrow. Anyone who&#8217;s ever enjoyed pointing, clicking, Yorkshire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}