Gods Will Be Watching: Special Edition

The game gives likable impression at first glance, I saw the intro and thought "great, another adventure like Sword and Sorcery or Kentucky Road Zero". However, the first scene was an immediate bucked of cold water over your head - not an adventure game, but a stress simulator with unclear game mechanics. Basically, you command a team in a stressful, high risk scenario, but none of them can operate independently, which is accidentally exactly the very recipe to failure. You have to micromanage everything. You have to tell the hacker to hack or secure network. If you don't, he won't do squat on his own. Guard must be told to shoot. So it's like a military encounter where all your soldiers are standing still, while you run around with a little pistol, trying to win the war on your own. Of course you will fail - just as the designer of this game has failed. Two stars for the effort.

Although the story and moral dilemas you face are the driver of this wonderful "adventure", this is not the classic adventure game some might expect. The mechanics of the game resemble more a turn-based strategy game (HINT, every action is one turn) and while you take a certain course of action, other things will happen in the meantime, making it fun and challenging to keep it all together and complete the chapter. One of the best things is that IT'S UP TO YOU how you go through a chapter, and boy are they different from one another... This game kept me playing and replaying levels (to unlock achievements and bonus content) for 3 days straight, not an easy task for something released post 2010. Give it a try, if you like challenge and a great story!

I gave this game a chance a few months ago and I was really dissapointed. I was expecting a modern adventure game and I got this plain stressful sort of puzzle game. But recently I gave it a second chance and knowing what I was facing I knew what to expect better. I really had an amazing time playing it. The problem is that the first two chapters are really hard to deal with for a first time player. The mechanics are sort of different to any others and might seem like a design error but it's not. From chapter 3 to 5 the game is really challenging and fun I really enjoyed it and it's when the story starts to really take shape. This game won't blow your mind but at least tries to be original and different. I think it's underrated. The first chapter is the main issue with it, it's too complicated and if you're not in the mood of learning something new it will be frustrating, unless you play in easy mode.

Could have given 5 but I do agree there is a steep learning curve at start. PROs: Make you think about what should be acceptable and what is not. Great Sound. Great Scenarios where your current mistakes get carried forward and accumulate or help you :). You can be an asshole, good guy, smart , suicidal whichever way you want to be. TIP: There is always a person that tells you how to manage the situation. Remember green dialog options are free. Cons Game is TOUGH!! The recommended mode is way tough. The game steep curve is usually because of our Moral issues like "dont shoot the hostage". Visual clues if missed really get you back. If you want the ending you want . You need to replay again and again.