Song of Farca

SoF plays sort of like visual novel with puzzle gameplay elements. As private investigator with house arrest, living in this cool city on Mediterranean island, we solve series of cases loosely connected by recurring characters, while working remotely all the time. Fortunately she has access to technologies allowing to hack everything out there in the blink of an eye (don't ask how it works) and even has this super AI helper that she wrote alone from scratch! Future, man. Main minigame is hacking security cameras and drones to get evidences and info. This gets slightly more complex with progress but only really difficult part of the game might be figuring out passwords which involves sometimes rather abstract puzzles (but there is hint system). Collected data is then used to create arguments during conversations, which is impossible to fail as there is infinite number of retries until you get it right. The only irreversible parts are occasional choices that might affect story in minor way, although most choices are rather illusionary. E.g. in early cases game forces player to incriminate basically random person out of three based on a "hunch" due to lack of hard evidence (great detective work indeed...) or choose to make or not deal with blackmailer - but then it's mostly meaningless anyway, even when subplots return later. For the large part it's linear and only few decisions matter. I found protagonist likeable and storytelling quite involving, each chapter/case being like separate episode of TV series but with this bigger picture constantly forming in the background and culminating in intense finale. It's really fairly nicely put together, which is important because with repetitive and simplistic gameplay it's mostly story that keeps player interested. Dialogs I assume weren't written by native English speakers because they feel awkward sometimes. Music is pretty good and fitting, could have more tracks though. While it's not perfect I enjoyed it very much.

Should keep you busy for several, a lot of text to read but also engaging so you don't get bored, some good puzzles going on and the story is not too shabby.

Way too repetitive.

It's a good game. Not great, but definitely good. The game plot is good; the mechanics, however, get repetitive in a while. Have different pahts to follow but didn't had the chance to replay to test other choices. One downside is that you can't manually save to test the outcomes, once it happens you need to move forward. For those like me without a lot of free time, it's kind of a downer. However, the reason I stopped playing the game was because of the gender forced agenda. Stuff like pronoums that are there but have no impact in the game. I'm old school and I don't like to mix politics in games and stopped playing a lot of games because of that. For that, I deducted one star. Else would have been three.