Norco (2022)

Refinery towers, family houses and roadside businesses give this distorted South Louisiana a recognisable working geography before its stranger inhabitants appear. Following a missing brother takes you through that landscape's institutions and dependencies, so the industrial setting does more than supply a sinister skyline. It is my strongest choice for the meeting of local detail and surreal invention. Expect substantial reading and a largely directed investigation, with occasional minigames; this is a fictional transformation of a real region.