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The Stone Of Madness PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series Following Blasphemous with a stealth tactics game, The Game Kitchen comes at the genre with plenty of novel ideas. Especially intriguing, on paper, is that each of your asylum-inmate characters has a specific phobia, whether it’s of dead bodies or mirrors, that will whittle away their sanity meter. But the concept is sadly undone by its execution – the downfall of our darkness-fearing bruiser Eduardo, for example, not so much an emergent story as the product of imprecise control and spots of light that seem to count as shadows. Dare we suggest there might have been too many cooks in this Kitchen?