Posted on: August 13, 2023

Pressure

Spiele: 166 Rezensionen: 11

No Detective Feeling

While technically sound and with some interesting ideas Gamedec failed to excite me for its plot and mechanics. I didnt feel like a detective solving mysteries, but like someone bumbeling through a world by simply doing things because they are possible. The progression and roleplay dont work very well to evoke a sense of meaning and agency either and it doesnt help that the games setting leans heavily into the simulated nature of the ingam-games removing the plot even further from the player. However, in some moments the game pulls clever twists on you and does make good use of the simulated worlds and their interaction with the ingame real world. Finally, since this is so often mentioned, I dont think that Gamedec is all to similar to Disco Elysium. While the two games have much in common, you should not expect a similar experience.

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Posted on: September 24, 2023

Carpentarius

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Spiele: 230 Rezensionen: 1

A good game with a error

I have played the game for nearly 30 hours. The story is well written. The characters and the world are interesting. Technically it is Point+Click-Adventure with few rpg-elements. A nice mixture, I have to say. Unfortunatelly there is bug at the end, that effects the 6 possible outcomes. In my case only 1 of the 6 outcomes was left. And that was perhaps the worst of the 6 outcomes. A bug like that can ruin the overall experience of an actually good game.

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Posted on: January 16, 2022

Kovasz

Spiele: 137 Rezensionen: 22

Cyberpunk: Sherlock Holmes

This game is really not what I thought it would be. I thought it's gonna be some (c)RPG in a cyberpunk setting, but actually it's the Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment game. Which I love, but that was not what I've expected. Also, it feels really dumb that the gameplay is essentially you are running in circles in a pretty small map and asking the newly unlocked dialogue options of the 5 NPCs (and some new NPCs, which just appeared out of nowhere). (At least for the first case.) Also, the "convincing" mechanism is... interesting, but in a bad way. I'm just like 3 hours in, but I hope it's gonna be more than this.

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Posted on: October 23, 2021

pllx

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Spiele: 277 Rezensionen: 29

Good mix Sherlock Holmes/Shadowrun

Quite satisfying mix of Shadowrun ambiance and dialogs/recent Sherlock Holmes deduction system. After a complete playthrough, I am curious enough to replay it to explore other paths.

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Posted on: January 27, 2024

SultanOfSuave

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 11

Food for thought, but not for seconds.

Gamedec has many positive attributes, but some flaws in its presentation. The concept and resulting philosophical ideas of layers of simulation are interesting, but mean little. Ultimately agency, relations, and interactions are rendered meaningless because the tale told is explored through the lens of detective gameplay. Although exploring whether simulated lives, emotions, and decisions that can be instantly erased is meaningful, gamedec expressing this by investing the player with its characters and worldbuilding to demonstrate the possible depths, depravity, and benefits of simulation - only to tear him away from the illusion. Interesting, yes, but when the only scene of any real consequence is the last yet the player still prattled around pleasing people to find worthless information, it removes player agency and seems like time wasted. The changes between dialogue and consequences of the players actions are minimal at best and influence little. The best illustration is through the professions. Much care was taken to craft the various dialogue options, to give the player abilities based on his character as determined by interaction choices. Yet they don't alter the game, just a guarantee to get the next clue. The last nitpick being that the player never changes costume, stands out like a sore thumb, and isn't challenged or inhibited by this. 47 is ashamed. The product would have been more pleasing by exploring the simpler premise initially offered, rather than becoming too convoluted - aligning better with the games scope and still offering identical intrigue. An alternate solution being making an interactive novel instead. That is to say, the novels from which the game is inspired appear to make the entire affair redundant. A scathing sentiment not unreasonably founded, a audio-visual experience I yearn to praise that is missing the critical puzzle piece. Sitting in limbo, too neutered in style and writing to open eyes, so grandiose that it spoils itself.

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