MONITOR: The Game

I definitely like where they are going with this. The story is decent, with some twists and turns along the way. I personally found the voice acting a bit wooden, but serviceable. From what I understand, this (free!) game is one of the first projects of many of it's crew, and I feel like the overall level of talent here is great for a new team...especially one that is using their own resources to produce this game without expectation of being paid. I see some activity in the discussions forum from the developer and even a free DLC or two...so huge props to them! The central gameplay mechanic, listening to one audio feed at a time, is decent and definitely contributes to the atmosphere of the game. But I do feel like it could use some tweaks here and there. Sometimes the "audio playing" lines show up on a monitor, but everyone in there is being silent. The lines may play for a full five-ten seconds before disappearing while you sit there listening to the silence. When that happens, it feels like you could be losing out on audio on other monitors. With the audio playing nearly non stop, you don't have much time to explore your surroundings either....which is important because there are hidden secrets there as well. I would've also liked to seen some sort of visual indicator (maybe even as an option) for marking audio I've heard before. Listen, I get it...the point (probably?) is to remember which audio you've heard before and which you haven't. Especially so you can use your one "bonus audio fix" a day on whichever "hidden" conversation you didn't hear before. But, without video cues to go with...you're trying to memorize which order the feeds trigger. It's a lot of work...so you end up just tracking it all? I don't know...I really like the concept but it ended up feeling like so much extra work that I gave up. Listening to the same conversations over and over and over again or try to come up with a tracking system? Meh. Anywyas...keep up the great work! I enjoyed the (again, free!) game and look forward to future works!