Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation

I get that the point of the game is that loyalty to an evil corporation goes unrewarded, and you can only do so much to help people from within the system. After 5 hours with Silicon Dreams, I was so incredibly impressed by its dialog system and world building, but the end that I got after all of that time investment was just unnecessarily cruel and punishing. It is as if the game wants me to know that I wasted my time and that I should feel like an idiot for having tried. It hits a little too close to reality. Yeah, I get it. Cyberpunk is supposed to be dystopian. But what it is asking me to do is invest another 5 hours playing the same content, making different decisions in order to get a better outcome (if one is even possible.) I am not willing to do that. And that is a huge shame, because there are aspects of this game that are fascinating. Unfortunately, it feels like the developers hate you as the player and they want you to feel stupid by the end. Good job, video game. You succeeded in making me feel stupid and like I wasted my time trying to be a tactful, decent person. Shame on me, I guess.

It's a really interesting game where you're an android that's made for interrogating androids. Each interrogation is related to some aspect of the game world, and I think the variety of topics is what makes the game interesting. One was about [spoiler] a caretaker unit that had killed a government employee because its owner couldn't leave quarantine without a specific form, but to get that form they'd need to leave their home and go to the government office. [/spoiler] You start each interrogation with a list of questions you need to find answers to, and the interrogation ends with you giving your answers and recommending how the android should be dealt with. The company reviews your reports and increases or decreases your rating as an interrogator, so you might get punished for being sympathetic and blaming the company for an android's mistakes, etc. The writing is solid, and I enjoy playing through a few "interviews" whenever I feel like it.

Not a big or over ambitious game, you’re putting other androids through a cranked up Voight-Kampff test whilst in relatively casual comfort

Loved it! Awesome story

Very absorbing with interesting narratives and perspectives. Trying to tread the line between corpo compliance and 'I feel you man' during interrogations is a delicate act. Runs with that oppressive 'there are no happy endings in Night City' vibe. As I tactically fried another helpless android in a chair before clocking out for the day I often wondered if you my subversive plans were really helping at all, or if it would be all for naught anyway.

A short (4-6h) introspective series of text based interrogations game where you are an android grilling other androids to try to detect if they are malfunctioning and determine if they should be released, factory reset or destroyed. Offers cases that offer dark nuances to wonder about. Think essentially a game about the interrogation scenes in Blade Runner, a conversational spin on Papers Please or playing through an episode of Black Mirror.

Very good game. I realized later that you actually can replay specific interrogations by rewinding in the load save menu.

I played this a few years ago but I think about it often. It's not long but has exceptionally high quality narration. Fans of hard sci-fi will get a boner.