Please also note I only played through the first 1-2 patches before I gave up. There have been at least a dozen since. I was seriously excited for this title, having loved 'Papers Please' and 'Owell' as well as Orwell's sequel. If you're looking for your intelligent, snappy story fix--this ain't for you. This is not a fun game. Initially, there was no tutorial and I was left clicking around frantically while a timer ran down. Eventually, that was more or less fixed (but not really) and the game would still bug and have me fail the first mission which meant I'd have to start the game over and over and over again. There are also typos aplenty for some reason. The missions quickly become tedious and the save system is finciky. Attempting to deal with these issues was just not fun.
Started off with a fairly egalitarian society Day 1 and by Day 42 had devolved into a Big Brother, Orwellian police surveillance state complete with book burning, forced child labor, 16 hour shifts, brawling, dueling in the streets, and legalized prostitution. We turned away the sick that came to our doors, executed thought criminals, and exiled food thieves to die slowly out in the storm. But what can I say? The City Survived.
