A very interesting cyberpunk interrogation/interviewing game.
You're an android whose job is to interview other androids and figure out if they're faulty and if they should be destroyed entirely, or if they can be let go free, or only be sent for maintenance. You also sometimes interview humans. As you may have guessed, the game is all about morals and philosophical questions: for example, can you punish an android that killed a human if it was the human engineers' fault that he had faulty components?
The way you talk to the android affects how co-operative it will be. You sometimes will need to manipulate to get some answers. Sometimes you need to gain its trust, sometimes you need to make it afraid, other times you may need to trigger its anger.
To add to this, your corporate overlords will review and rate all the cases afterwards. They also sometimes make demands and may ask you to act against your own morals: the corporation can, for example, tell you to send the subject android to be destroyed and then lie on the answer form to justify the decision, just to calm down a bad PR situation. Do you let the android be sent to maintenance because it's not actually faulty enough to be destroyed but risk angering the corporation, or do you follow the corporation's orders like a good android? Or do you choose the middle ground and send the android to its death but refuse to lie on the answer form?
The game is a very low budget one, for sure. The graphics are extremely primitive, there's no voice acting and you actually see pretty much everything the game has to offer on these store page screenshots. The music, while not memorable or catchy, is great at creating an atmosphere. And that's one thing the game shines at: it really immerses you in the world. I'm actually interested in the setting and the writing is so good and believable, that I can imagine the scenes and situations, even tho there are no cutscenes or anything but the androids' answers on the screen. The sometimes dark music and the big eye at the corner of the screen, as well as the constant sound of the answers triggering different emotions in the androids really create a weird and eerie atmosphere.
Each interview takes around 20-30 minutes to complete, so this is also a game you can pick up and play when you have a little time to kill. The average playthrough seems to be at 4-5 hours (I haven't finished the whole thing yet), which seems about good length for a game like this. As much as I like the game, I wouldn't play it past 10 hours for sure. And that also brings me to topic of price: I feel the full 14,99€ is a bit steep for a game that has such low production values and running time, but [b]for the current 4,49€ discount price I can definitely recommend buying it.[/b]
