Blade Runner

Is it set in the Bladerunner universe? Yes. Does it have characters from the movie? Yes. Do you play as a Bladerunner, doing detective work and trying to oust replicants? Yes. And no. It is a point-and-click game, with elements of action (shooting, mainly) and puzzle solving to gather clues. Every new game you start will have some elements randomized. Some people will now be replicants, and vice versa. You can get clues in a few different ways, and have some options on how to deal with certain situations. However, after playing the game a few times, I started to notice that it's not really by my choice that the story progressed how it did. It happened that I was still thinking about what choice I was going to make, but something happened in the game that put me on the other path anyway. Also, the randomization also means that you somethimes cannot make a certain choice. When I won this game years ago in a contest from a videogame magazine, I had not seen the original Bladerunner movie and had no idea what I was getting into. My pc at the time wasn't one of the latest models, but I was able to run the game without any problems. However, I assumed that because my pc was a bit older, the game looked like it did. The backgrounds looked good, but the characters were just plain ugly: very pixelated, and lacking definition. The animation of some movements also kinda break the immersion: when McCoy is climbing a ladder for example, he's not actually gripping and stepping on the rungs, just going through "climbing the ladder" motions. It looks weird. In the end, I'm not sure what to think of this game. It has a great atmosphere and setting for the adventurous, good voice acting, and there's replayability. But it falls flat on the lack of player choice, and ugly looking character models.

I have never seen the movie this game is based on and you really don't need to in order to enjoy this game. Great music and sound effects, stunning CGA cutscenes, unique characters and storyline. More of a detective-like mystery game than inventory based and you're actions throughout the game decides the ending (and your fate). Glad to finally see this on GOG.

The game draws on both the movie and the book — though moreso from the movie — which the movie was based on, pleasing fans of both, though I was a little let down by the voice-casting of Gaff. I wish the game had a subtitle, making it more distinguishable from the movie itself, but no matter. It plays out like a good detective game but doesn't seem to have some of the usual trimmings of an adventure game, such as choosing pieces of dialogue and using objects on one another, so there isn't so much puzzle-solving as there is just inspecting and exploring. With multiple possible endings, writing and referencing walkthroughs for this one can be a bit of a challenge, but it is no doubt a great game for those wanting to further immerse themselves in the fictional world of 'Blade Runner'!

I played this game for the first time in 2020, and speaking as a long-time Blade Runner the movie fan, I was not disappointed. The game captures perfectly everything I loved about the movie. This is what I would imagine a proper Blade Runner sequel should feel like; in fact the story runs parallel to the movie plot, so there are plenty references to it and it's fun to interact with some of the movie characters as well. So thumbs up from me, it's a great game--not a 'great game for a 1990s game', just great game, period.

As good as I remembered when I played it the first time, one of the very few games I played in one session (back then when it was possible without commitments) overnight, what an adventure it was, great game without illogic puzzles, just pure investigation! I did not get the "enhanced" as it is a poor job, although the original assets were lost so not much they could have done but upscaling. The fact that this pearl can still be played today it is outstanding, if you like a good game you have to play this, you won't need to look for guides or combine items that would not make any sense, once again it is pure investigative gameplay and an eye for details when scouting areas. Graphics have their own style even looking at them today, a sort of "voxel" like cyberpunk, not too different than what Cloudpunk offers (another good, recent, game if you like the settings). Thank you for the team that brought this back to be playable!