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  "product": "Echo Weaver",
  "title": "Echo Weaver",
  "description": "A knowledge-based Metroidvania built around a time loop. As the last Weaver, you explore, use an alien glaive's powers and apply what you learn in past loops to find shortcuts and break the cycle, in a single-player game.",
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      "id": "install-size",
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