Shape of America: Episode One

I like this game. It shows in a very interesting way the rise of a former waiter through the ranks of politics, starting out as an internet lobbyist. Having it in a fictional American Union of States in the 90s allows for some nice retro feeling and havingh politics with obvious expys of real life people without having to go to close to real life politics of the current day. I recommend this game to everybody who is interested in politics.

Um dos jogos mais originais que eu já joguei. É a prova de que ainda é possível fazer um ótimo jogo com poucos recursos. Pra quem gosta de storytelling e política, é prato cheio.

Fake it 'til you make it in this very cool 90s dot-com boom setting. Great graphics & multi-layered gameplay. Could use a little more polish, but was a thoroughly enjoyable and refreshing experience. For more niche curation, follow me at: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27440015-CSH-Picone/

Eh, it's ok. I was able to make over a million dollars because a stock fell bellow $0, so they paid me to buy it... which was weird. Also there are tons of grammar and spelling issues, weird endless loops of possible throwdowns among other dialog issues, glitches, and strange designs that just make it feel pretty low-quality. And they canceled the future game episodes, so what they have is barely worth it because it ends right as the story gets interesting. Too bad too, it seemed like it had potential.

Great start to what i hope is going to continue to be a great story. Shape of America gives a great setting and the 90's is captured perfectly. You start off as no one but given a chance to prove yourself you can reach far and wide. Buy it, it's great.

Good fun although I never got the hang of the Speech thing... seems a pretty odd way of doing it. Story was good and the feel of the game was very 1999 which was cool. Still waiting for Episode 2 though....!

Ive been able to end the game in a few minutes in my first playthrough, so i had to start up a new playthrough so progress in the game. You have to fight out political debates with arguments in these RPG-like interview battles. They can be tough to win. Also the characters in game, both the names and portrait resemble a lot like the ones in USA in the past ;) The game also has this visual novel like story progress witch leads to these political battles. You have a stats profile for your characters which evolve as you progress in the game. Unfortunately for me, this Unity game takes a few minutes to load up at the startup.

It's rather short, and a little rough around the edges (particularly the arbitrary precision of decimal numbers stuck out like a sore thumb), but the story is interesting and I'm looking forward to Episode 2 ... except it's been over a year since this first episode was released, and there's no sign of the developers having updated the game's website since announcing the upcoming release of episode 1, so I'm getting kind of pessimistic over here. I'd say buy it, but not at full price. 5 Euro is a bit much for 2-3h of gameplay, even accounting for some presumable replay value thanks to multiple choices.

I downloaded this game for free (regional price, maybe?). I really liked the aesthetics, cool retro 80s (90s should be, really, but it felt a bit older than that. Perhaps in this American Union State the 90s were like that). The soundtrack is also good and fits with the story. The Pokemon-style verbal Throwdowns are a nice element, and I liked that you didn't know much about how they worked and had to find out by trial and error. The storyline is intriguing, as well as the theme. Politics and text-based adventure is a good combo. The most negative part is that the game ends abruptly, as it is only the first episode. Shame that it didn't continue. If I had to pay for the game, I probably wouldn't have gotten it. Nevertheless, I spent a fun couple of hours playing it, always wanting to find out more about what was about to happen. Overall, a fun little game, but beware that it is incomplete.

it is super fun