Supposedly Wonderful Future

I really enjoyed this game. Think of it as a text-based choice driven game with scenery. To me, it's almost a stretch to call this sci-fi. I tend to think of that genre as way into the future with the flying cars, etc. This is only going 30 years ahead and could be much closer to our soon to be reality rather than fiction. I follow tech news and what the gazillionaires and their corporations are researching and developing, so most of the concepts and trends to where society is going is not fabricated. Except the time travel ... haven't heard about that yet! :) The game is more extrapolating on how our society may operate and what it may look like in the near future and what that means for us. I found it thought provoking and I found myself getting into conversations with friends about these issues. The writing was very good and presented different points of view, but wasn't preachy. In fact, it was clever and quite funny at times. To get the most out of this game, you need to do all the reading. So if you like text-based adventures, making choices, and tech, I think you will like this experience. And yes, I would rather have a jet pack than a bigger screen! :-)

Supposedly Wonderful Future packs a heck of a punch story wise. It has various different moral dillemas you must take part in and choose between different ways to solve them. There are no right or wrong choices, no way to fail the task, just a lot of grey area in which to see what you think about certain issues. The basic story is that you are given the chance to time travel to the future to take part in five experiments, upon the completion of which you can choose to stay there or go back to your time. The future world is very well thought out. You get to access news articles about a multitude of current events for 2048. They were my favorite part actually. The articles give you a good idea how things have changed over the last thirty years and are an interesting read. The responses you get to pick from range from polite, rude, angry, etc. You never are forced to agree with the people you speak with. While I won’t spoil the ending I will say I guessed it in the first hour of the game. I still enjoyed the rest of the journey though. I do wish you got to see more of an ending as what we are given is rather abrupt. The graphics are not going to wow anyone but then again this is really a visual novel and when looked at that way it is above most visual novels for graphical fidelity. There is no voice acting but I don’t see that as a downside as I would rather no voice acting than poor voice acting. The soundtrack was decent, not wowing but not annoying either. The gameplay is part what you would expect of a visual novel in picking conversation chocies to advance the story but there are some light point and click elements as well. I would still classify it as a visual novel. I played the game on Linux. It didn’t crash on me even once. The game ran at 144fps the whole time. The game supported manual saves and gives you 100 save slots to use which is more than enough. I did have two issues in that Steam achievements didn’t work for me and Alt-Tab didn’t work. I beat the game in just over 4 hours. I paid $2.87 CAD for the game but would say it is easily worth $20. The game uses the Unity engine and had an install size of 1218MB. If you enjoy visual novels or scifi stories I would easily recommend it. It has a fantastic story that makes you think and is a good example of what the genre can produce. My Score: 9/10 My System: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 18.3.3 | Manjaro Mate | Kernel 4.20.11-1-MANJARO

overall good for in between. can recommend it.

I just finished the game, and I will probably be thinking about it for days to come. Overall good game, I would recommend it if you like text-based games and a plot that leaves you pondering about the present. The visuals are nothing impressive, but they get the job done. The sound effects are put in all the right places to give you enough engagement to the story. Some really intense philosophical points are brought up in this game, and I like that the creators present various perspectives. For example, Jackie (character who leads you throughout the game) believes in her future through and through, and many characters you meet suffer in the conditions created by this future. The gameplay felt slow at times, where I thought there were too many hoops to jump through before getting through the plot, but I think the ending really ties it up together. I wish the last chapter was longer, with more dialogue, but the impact was still felt.

the game is fun if you like stories. Sometimes,though, i already anticipate the conversation and have to still wait for it to end. I reccomend this game as a sci-fi story with lots of reading

I didn't play this - I watched [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRF0Cx2LPO4&index=1&list=PLV0o1nXCAcPTkORgdDu1RmLaQk78pBC8A]Wretch Plays' Let's Play[/url] and it was so good I felt compelled to buy this game just to leave a good review. Supposedly Wonderful Future's gameplay is almost entirely expressed as a visual novel. There's a lot of reading, a few hard choices, and a lot of thinking in deeply unusual ways about the ethical and philosophical problems it throws at you. The writing is fantastic, and it's novel and creative in ways that you hardly ever see in modern media. I thought I was relatively experienced in sci-fi storylines, but I've never seen anything like some of the situations you play through in this game. Overall, I highly recommend Supposedly Wonderful Future. It will expand your mind.

It's a fun and immersive game. I think it's worth the full asking price. Lots of philosophy and pop culture references with a solid story and good game assets. PROS It is a really deep game. It's fun and engaging with mini-stories. It's very emotional. Good art and great music CONS It gets a little long-winded at some parts but that's how you get your money's worth and attached to the story. The episodes can feel too short.

This is a great story game in all the right ways, has elements of being dark, sci-fi and philosophical. It's not perfect, but if you want a memorable story game this is one of the best I've seen in recent years.

Не рекомендую данную игру. Считаю ее пустой тратой времени, а для детей - вредной. 1. В первой задаче Вам предлагают проблему эвтаназии - убийства из жалости. У Вас есть возможность избежать убийства, но я нашел на ютубе прохождение, где игрок выбирает применение эвтаназии и спокойно играет дальше. С моей точки зрения, на этом основании игру можно рассматривать как пропаганду эвтаназии. Напомню, что в России эвтаназия законодательно запрещена статьёй 45 Федерального закона № 323 и карается статьёй 105 УК РФ. Но в данном случае все хуже - рассматриваемый пример на самом деле является классическим убийством, поскольку эвтаназия применяется не по просьбе безнадежно больного человека, а из жалости к его родным!!! 2. Во второй задаче Вам предлагают "расследовать дело": предлагают найти человека, который опубликовал фейковый пост в блоге девушки, после чего она написала, что собирается совершить самоубийство. При этом заранее известно, что девушка не собиралась совершать самоубийство, а пыталась таким образом изменить отношение к себе. Вам предлагается совершить длинный и нудный опрос подозреваемых, в результате которого выясняется, что подозревать можно всех. При этом одного подозреваемого (E) опросить невозможно, а главу компании опрашивать нельзя, - всего лишь потому, что нет свидетельств, что у него был пароль к аккаунту девушки. Вам предоставляют возможность сделать обыск у двоих подозреваемых (кроме E), что не вносит ясности. Из ютуба я знаю, что Вам может повезти и Вы в результате длинной и во многом случайной цепочки выборов выйдете на настоящего виновного - хакера. Мне не повезло. И я выяснил, что могу указать любого подозреваемого, его арестуют (!), и всем наплевать, виновен ли он хоть в чем-нибудь. После чего Вам предлагают сказать пару бессмысленных утешительных слов девушке - и вы свободны. На этом я сломался. У меня сложилось стойкое ощущение, что автор игры: 1) является троллем, который издевается над теми, кто решил потратить деньги на такую сомнительную игру; 2) исповедует идеи о бессмысленности жизни и равноправности всех моральных выборов, которые мы делаем. Допускаю также, что автор игры проводит эксперимент, и те, кто играют, являются для него подопытными крысами. Видел в Интернете восторженные отзывы критиков. Думаю, что это то же самое, что восторженные отзывы на абстрактную картину, представляющую собой бессмысленный набор случайных мазков и пятен. Это именно тот случай - игра подчеркнуто дешевая по исполнению, она сделана с минимальной затратой усилий на оформление. Не тратьте время на эту игру. Хотя бы потому, что ИГРА НЕВЫНОСИМО СКУЧНАЯ.

very interesting. lots of reading, a few hard choices, and plenty of 'stuff' to discover.