ERROR: Human Not Found

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This is a mostly story-based point-and-click game with different dialogue options for the player character, though most of them don't affect gameplay too much. You play as a human trying to investigate the death of an AI who entered his new android body under suspicious circumstances. There are obstacles and interactions with prickly NPCs; some obstacles can be overcome through solving very basic logic puzzles that play a role in computer science, while others require a bit of sweet-talking. Takes maybe an hour to play; more if you want to actually explore every dialogue option. Liked: CS puzzles like very basic logic gates and binary numbers. A good refresher to how CS works. Decent graphics and soundtrack. A little ambivalent about the story, though I did like all of the robots. They did a pretty good job with the characters. Journals and notes provide optional background fun facts. It tells you exactly how many things are clickable in each location and each clickable thing lights up when you mouse over it, so you aren't just clicking around for eternities or being unable to finish the game because you forgot to pet a horse. Basically everything is fairly easy-level, which is great if that's what you're looking for. Disliked: The dialogue and narration was a little clunky. It could have been better-written. The big payoff at the end was a little predictable, and the ending never really provided a moral or satisfying conclusion. Most humans saw AI as subhuman, too, which doesn't seem too realistic even though it's a common sci-fi trope. The plot was a little on the watery side and also seemed to resolve itself a little neatly, without necessarily directly resulting from the protagonist and her android friend. I'm a huge fan of the fact that this was free, and recommend it to anyone who's looking for a lighter, easy-to-play game involving point-and-click puzzles, investigation, robots, and basic computer puzzles. Would not recommend this to anyone who's looking for a challenge, unless they've never done anything computer-science related and are looking for a light introduction to things like boolean logic.

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It's a decent murder mystery involving robots. The dialogue and character interactions are the most interesting bits. If you have some time to kill, this isn't bad for a free game. 7 out of 10.

I downloaded ERROR: Human Not Found because i was in the mood for a sci-fi story and i didn't have one i hadn't finished yet. For a free game, it's fine. The story isn't anything groundbreaking, but it's good enough for a quick fix. A disappointing part is that, in what seems to be a common visual novel trope, the workplace is completely toxic. Everyone is unprofessional and thinks nothing of abusing one another or lying and scheming to get ahead. I don't understand why games writers keep falling back on this sort of thing, when it's entirely possible to write a compelling stories that feature a more believable team of diverse professionals (e.g. Star Trek). But anyway. The story is okay. The music is good. The graphics are quite nice. The puzzles are as annoying as you would expect. In particular the tedious memory "puzzle" kills the flow of the story, but whatever, it was free. If you just want a bit of sci-fi, it's worth a download and playthrough.

It took me about 6 hours to play through the entire Game. I took my time, because I read every sentence loud out. And I can say... this Game is absolutley great. At one Point, it was the last logic Puzzle in the Game, a got so frustrated and it took me forever to solve this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing. But I managed it... somewhat. You have a specific game story and yes you can make some decisions, but they wont really affect the game itself. A secret Ending would have been nice or something. But i really really like the Game how it is. The Story and the Relationships, especially between Grace and Ada, is great. At one point I almost cried.... This Game is great and I can really recommend it to everybody. I mean, it is a visual Novel, so you of course have to read a loooot. But if you like reading the Game is great for you

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unexpected surprise. especially when i am normally not fan of visual novels. i started to play this game only because i was wondering what "computer-science based puzzles" actually mean. well, puzzles are solvable but not too easy, story is interesting, background music is very nice. graphics is ok and fits the game and its atmosphere well. the only real objection is that this game is very short.