What is it, in summary?: Story-driven mixed-genre indie game about a bartender, his boyfriend, and an android in a cyberpunk city, and their quest to stop a megacorporation from potentially permanently compromising free will. Expect many dialogue trees on the nature of happiness, free will, ethics, and manipulation.
What do you love about it?: It's just one very emotionally and intellectually satisfying gutpunchy whole. Everything from the art style to the questions it asks and the way it asks them, the way it plays with the interactive medium and... this is one of those stories that is both in the Videogames As High Art hall of fame for me and would have been less impactful if it had been told in any other form.
Likely to request for Casefic Ex: The canon is all about investigating a mystery and I'd love for more of the same. But some pre-canon heistfic featuring Brandeis breaking into places with Donovan's assistance would be fantastic too!
Content warnings (for example: rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Several incidents of on-screen violence/death, suicide
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The Red Strings Club (Video Game)
Date: 2025-04-16 05:50 pm (UTC)The Red Strings Club
Media:
Video game
Where to find it:
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/589780/The_Red_Strings_Club/
Full playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTlnrT7omr0 (~3 hours)
What is it, in summary?:
Story-driven mixed-genre indie game about a bartender, his boyfriend, and an android in a cyberpunk city, and their quest to stop a megacorporation from potentially permanently compromising free will. Expect many dialogue trees on the nature of happiness, free will, ethics, and manipulation.
What do you love about it?:
It's just one very emotionally and intellectually satisfying gutpunchy whole. Everything from the art style to the questions it asks and the way it asks them, the way it plays with the interactive medium and... this is one of those stories that is both in the Videogames As High Art hall of fame for me and would have been less impactful if it had been told in any other form.
Likely to request for Casefic Ex:
The canon is all about investigating a mystery and I'd love for more of the same. But some pre-canon heistfic featuring Brandeis breaking into places with Donovan's assistance would be fantastic too!
Content warnings (for example: rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
Several incidents of on-screen violence/death, suicide