Posted on: August 29, 2024
yanamal
Verified ownerGames: 429 Reviews: 6
Fun for the first playthrough
I enjoyed my first playthrough of this game quite a bit. But this is definitey a game that's intended for more than one playthrough - there's a lot of randomization in what you see and when, and there are probably several outcomes for each schenario. My one full playthrough took me probably 3-4 hours. The game has you juggle watching several (unrelated, but happening in the same general world) video feeds, "write down" in your notebook things it finds important, and do some additional research/guesswork based on these notes. You can also meddle in the things that are happening to affect the outcome. On top of that, your character exists in the world too, and has to eat/sleep/pay rent etc. in order to not die; and people knock on your door for various additional interactions. I like the concept of a world that keeps happening regardless of whether you interfere. Many of the scenarios are pretty cliche and unsubtle, but there are a couple with amusing surprising outcomes. Either way, I still enjoyed uncovering "mysteries" and searching the "internet" for clues. The "survival" management was a bit anxiety-inducing at first, but I got into a rhythm and found a good balance to strike. I did find the "meta" aspects of it amusing. Here I am, sitting at my computer, playing a character who is sitting at their computer, getting interrupted by various things while I also get interrupted by things like being hungry and my dogs deciding it's playtime. On my first playthrough, I was happy to just react to the world and see how it reacts to me. But when I started a second playthrough, I was actually trying to aim for specific outcomes (e.g. the opposite of what I did the first time around), and this was surprisingly frustrating. I started noticing that things end abruptly and unexpectedly too often. e.g. I write an email about a scenario and it immediately "turns off" and I can't interact with its notebook page and send a video to a fourth party.
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