There’s a BOGOF on neon negronis. At least, that might be the glowing signal I’d grasp exterior, have been I in command of the recent pink bar of upcoming cyberpunk journey The Red Strings Club. It’s a recreation of social engineering, body-hacking and clandestine mixology from Deconstructeam, the makers of Gods Will Be Watching. They’ve despatched digital phrases to say it’s popping out on January 22.
It’s a couple of huge nasty corp doing huge nasty issues. Sure, they say they’re eliminating melancholy and anxiousness from the populace with their “Social Psyche Welfare” however that appears like suss corpspeak to the protagonists – a shady bartender, a contract hacker and a rogue android. They’re placing collectively a plan to flummox the corp and cease this new life-style product from hitting the… cabinets? Brains? From hitting no matter it’s they’ll be hitting.
It’s additionally a little bit of a cocktail itself. Two freebies from the identical builders make up the idea for some scenes. Supercontinent Ltd is about manipulating individuals’s belief over the telephone (Alice liked that one) and Zen and the Art of Transhumanism is about performing chilled-out cyberpottery to create enhancements that you simply shove into individuals’s our bodies (I performed that one for a free video games roundup, though truthful warning, there are some incidental willies in this article). In Zen, you sculpt the enhancements your self, and so they make your patient-customers extra sexually enticing or higher at social media. I believe there’s additionally an implant that erases their sense of morality. So, you understand, be careful for that.
I didn’t like Gods Will Be Watching, nevertheless, regardless of it wanting simply as placing. I gave up early, throughout a torture sequence through which you needed to navigate a rigidly appropriate path of dialogue so the story might progress previous varied ‘game over’ alleyways. John spoke of comparable issues in his review. But judging from the freebies the creators have made since, they appear to have taken a barely new course. Here’s hopin’.
It’s popping out on Steam for £11.39.
