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A Pocket Full of Slagford – aretro-futurist take on Thatcher-era northern England

Developer Patrick Grant was born in Australia and lives in New Zealand, but a childhood of British TV inspired him to set a comedy game in a bleak vision of the north

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Elliot Gardner25 Aug 2026, 09:00 amUpdated 4h ago1 min readTechGlobal
A Pocket Full of Slagford – a retro-futurist take on Thatcher-era northern England

GlobalElliot Gardner

Developer Patrick Grant was born in Australia and lives in New Zealand, but a childhood of British TV inspired him to set a comedy game in a bleak vision of the north

Something is amiss in the dingy town of Slagford, and curious scamp Pip Bunting is the only one who can find out what. So quit your mithering, it’s time to discover just how grim it truly is up north.

A Pocket Full of Slagford is an upcoming retro-styled 3D puzzle adventure game set in a surreal alternative-reality near-future northern England that never escaped the clutches of Thatcherism. The story follows the misadventures of a young local lad from the eponymous Slagford after he takes ownership of a mysterious relic that lets him wreak havoc on reality.

Something is amiss in the dingy town of Slagford, and curious scamp Pip Bunting is the only one who can find out what. So quit your mithering, it’s time to discover just how grim it truly is up north.

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Source: The Guardian · Elliot Gardner. Published 25 Aug 2026, 09:00 am.

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