Replica

Before he was even elected?

A fascinating and thought provoking investigation game where you're coerced to work for a totalitarian state to implicate a high school boy as a terrorist. Some of the allegories are a bit on the nose, but I think the game has a good message that's relevant now more than ever. Definitely worth the money.

A short game for a small price! I found the basic concept very interesting, and the first playthrough—right up until the first ending I reached—kept me hooked. It wasn’t until I saw the trophies that I realized there was more to it, and from there, figuring out what those icons at the top of the phone were, next to the battery icon… I have to admit that to reach the true ending (the only one that shows the credits), I had to consult the guides because otherwise I wouldn’t have had a clue. The reason? There’s a kind of “sound” code involved that’s presented here in text form… and I couldn’t figure out what it was until I looked in the guides. But aside from that, for its atmosphere, concept, political message, and especially the price, I can’t help but recommend it!

It's a very quick game, perfect for a rainy evening. Puzzles are not to complicated, I had fun

Can’t stand the writing. The secret police are bad, I get it. But making citizens foolishly naive and the policemen cartoonishly evil doesn’t help hammer the point home. People living under authoritarian or totalitarian states are not blissfully unaware of the dangers surrounding them. And the secret police aren’t going to come up with some far-fetched scheme involving giving suspects one another’s phones as part of an investigation. Orwell is similar to Replica in many ways, and in my opinion, it does its job much better.

i think that while this game does have its merits, it's heavy handed and not amazingly in depth writing wise, but given that it's cheap i think it's worth the money, however if you have a different game in mind you have on the back burner or something else you wan't to play, do that, the game is good but it's not compelling enough to stand up to anything else, also they overuse "Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato" - Benito Mussolini. the game is about facism so the use of it is expected but there are other quotes out there that can be used rather than repeating it again and again. good game to remind yourself of the importance of the privacy VS government oversight debate and the dangers of fascism