Holonoptic

Game that grows on you slowly but surely. Would like to see some improvements for management ui. Unique concept imo. Worth the price

Corporate Fever Dream: The Game Tynan Sylvester of "Rimworld" fame, once wrote that the game is defined by experiences arising from emergent narrative formed by the interaction of different game systems. "Holonoptic" has a lot of moving parts under the hood and they collectively work to bring you Certified CEO Grindset Experience. This is the game where you actively choose midlife crisis and can't drop caffeine addiction because stuff is so good. This is the game where you hit fat blunts (looted after evicting squatters from your HQ basement) for three days to reach the required level of dissociation before monthly board report. This is the game where you are pushed to manipulate your stock to reach at least a token of control over your own company without the board stepping in to pull your leash. This is the game where you can choose to develop AI to run your corporation under the explicit reasoning of "what's the worst that's gonna happen?". Your "party members" - lower executives - are, without exception, trying to push their own agendas and won't hesitate to push them at your expense. A lot of times you'll have to choose between them and sacrifice someone. Choices matter, multiple endings are well-telegraphed and fairly different - adding overall replayability. UI still feels clunky at times, but the patches are coming at reasonable pace since the beta stage and the overall experience is much smoother now. Definitely a hidden gem.

Charming visuals, cheeky dialogue, intriguing mechanics, interesting storyline. Takes some familiarizing but it was fun. Wish I could play as a male protagonist. If you like the demo you'll like the game.

I was very interested by the aesthetic and premise, though I don't usually play games that have this much strategy involved. Though I felt in over my head at first, it ended up being really engaging and fun, and I found a lot of success just trying things out!

Fun, with an interesting premise and setting

A truly unique hidden gem. Bought randomly on a whim mostly because the Art looked great and the premise seemed fascinating. I was pleasantly surprised, Holonoptic is as engaging as it is well-written. Definitely a breath of fresh air for management sims.

Brilliant game and awesome developers who made great use of community input and testing.