A quick stroll around Norco's virtual art gallery Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. A quick stroll around Norco's virtual art gallery A slightly on-the-nose take on games-as-art still does its job. Feature by Chris Tapsell Reviews Editor Updated on 4 Mar 2022 There's a virtual exhibition for Norco, the extremely moody, murky point-and-click mystery coming at the end of this month, that you can play here on Steam for free. I've had a little poke around and, alright, it's a room with some game art in it. Stills from Norco's early-game environments, static captures of a scene of a distant, rusty skyline pocked with dead trees, another with plumes of chemical exhaust. Silhouettes of chemical plants, overpass bridges, degrading swamps. Plus a few snapshots of the rooms and places you'll get to poke and prod more thoroughly in the game itself (as I did in my first look at the game), and a secret room I won't spoil. Watch on YouTube Norco's Act One demo trailer - you can play this now. The virtual gallery's running alongside a real one, which has popped up in Gamla Stan, Stockholm and is honestly where I'd much rather be. Taking game art and putting it in an actual gallery is a very literal take on "games as art", but there is something to it, I think. Especially with Norco, which seems to sit at a junction between its creators' experience of one real place in the real American south, and their own virtual, concentrated version of it. Our publisher @RawFury is hosting a virtual art gallery featuring early concept sketches, reference photos, and finalized pixel art from NORCO. The content will also be featured in a digital art book that you can purchase alongside the game. More here: https://t.co/rW9vyp7AFv pic.twitter.com/due13mSHX1- geographyofrobots (@roboticgeo) February 28, 2022 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings I'd quite like to be in a room looking at pictures of that, of their early pencil sketches and blotted, oily paintings, photographs of the real thing and big, blown-up pixel-art recreations of it. I'd like to be next to real people talking about it as all of that blurs together, given that whole people-responding-to-what-you've-made thing is where the magic really happens. So yep, a bit literal - a better way to virtually recreate a gallery's whole communal, reaction-to-art thing is probably just to play the game for a shared audience on Twitch - and ultimately yes, also a marketing exercise. But it's worked. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 27 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Feature From abandoned board game to birthing a genre: Football Manager at 40 Kick off. 21 Feature How I became an Elden Ring detective It started with a save game... 26 Latest Articles Atari will hold RollerCoaster Tycoon rights for another decade Ups and downs. 7 Jelly Deals Logitech's G Pro X gaming headset is its lowest-ever price during Amazon's Early Access sale Prime Members can get it for just £52. Jelly Deals Save over £500 off the retail price on this beefy ASUS TUF Dash gaming laptop from Amazon Under £1080 for an RTX 3070 laptop. Lady Dimitrescu will be a tad smaller in Resident Evil Village's Mercenaries DLC Level the playing field. 1 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store