A New Zealand-based artist, Patrick Grant, is developing A Pocket Full of Slagford, a retro-styled 3D puzzle adventure game set in a surreal, near-future version of northern England still gripped by Thatcherism. Grant, who was born in Australia and has never actually lived in the north of England, drew his inspiration from British television he watched growing up, particularly the 1980s BBC drama Boys from the Blackstuff. The game blends comedy and social commentary, touching on themes of wealth disparity and class conflict without setting out to make an overt political statement.

Under his solo studio Slumps, Grant designed the game as an homage to classic 1980s and 1990s point-and-click adventures such as those made by LucasArts and Grim Fandango, while trying to avoid the genre's repetitive tropes. Players control a young Slagford local, Pip Bunting, who gains a mysterious relic and must navigate a decaying industrial world by collecting and placing "imprints" of the scenery to solve puzzles, in a style Grant calls a "jigsaw sticker book". The game also emulates the CD-Rom era's rendered backgrounds and rough 3D models, and Grant reimagines Thatcher-era coal mining as digging up excrement instead. A Pocket Full of Slagford is in development for PC, with no release date confirmed yet.