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Tim Schafer’s innovative studio Double Fine, which brought us titles like Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and Costume Quest (which we reviewed), released the Russian doll-based action/puzzler Stacking to PSN and XBLA on February 8, 2011. In the charming world of the game, you play a Russian nesting doll who must rescue his family from an evil industrial magnate by completing various puzzles in locales like a train terminus, a luxury steamer, and swanky zeppelin. The a-historical setting of the game is an England that can’t quite decide whether it’s late Victorian or Edwardian (think Oliver Twist on the Orient Express), but it’s a compellingly-realized fantasy world populated by dolls of various sizes, with a great deal of personality in their deft detail.

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