Shannon P. Drake
MonsterVineNORCO Review – A Cult With Personality
Published 1/26/2023
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-7 vs critic avg
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Series X|S / PS4 / PC / PS5 / Mac / XONE - 3/24/2022
NORCO
Norco is a Southern Gothic point & click narrative adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and verdant industrial swamps of a distorted South Louisiana. Your brother Blake has gone missing in the aftermath of your mother's death. In the hopes of finding him, you must follow a fugitive security android through the refineries, strip malls, and drainage ditches of suburban New Orleans.
- Developer
- Geography of Robots
- Publisher
- Raw Fury
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Critic avg
87
23 scored reviews
Total coverage
23
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Score range
50–100
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Score range is 31+ points
Critic landscape
The critic average is 87 across 23 scored reviews, with a 50-point spread. Critics are far apart on this one.
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Most scored reviews currently sit in the 90–100 band.
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23 included scored reviews
90–10015 reviews · 65%
80–896 reviews · 26%
70–790 reviews · 0%
Below 702 reviews · 9%
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Heidi Hawes
WayTooManyGamesReview - Norco
Published 1/10/2023
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85
-2 vs critic avg
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Metro GameCentralNorco review – southern discomfort
Published 12/21/2022
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80
-7 vs critic avg
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XboxEraReview | NORCO
Published 12/6/2022
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65
-22 vs critic avg
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Read originalGraham Banas
Push SquareReview: Norco (PS5) - A Peculiar Prosaic Paradigm
Published 11/28/2022
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80
-7 vs critic avg
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Read originalNeil Bolt
PlayStation UniverseNORCO Review (PS5) - A Fantastically Grim And Grungey Tech-Noir Adventure - PlayStation Universe
Published 11/25/2022
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95
+8 vs critic avg
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Read originalSimon Parkin
The GuardianNorco review – dour, compelling Louisiana adventure
Published 10/8/2022
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100
+13 vs critic avg
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Read originalEmily Price
Washington Post‘Norco’ is a sci-fi Deep South dystopia about mundane, corporate evils
Published 5/10/2022
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90
+3 vs critic avg
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Read originalPrans Dunn
GBAtempNorco (Computer) Official GBAtemp Review
Published 5/6/2022
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80
-7 vs critic avg
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Read originalEdie W-K
Checkpoint GamingNORCO Review – Ghosts of the lowland
Published 4/18/2022
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90
+3 vs critic avg
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