

Ratings War
Choice of Games · October 2, 2015 · RPG, Indie, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based
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Ratings War price by region
Ratings War costs £4.29 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, €4.99 in Europe (EUR), $4.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$6.49 in Canada, NZ$7.39 in New Zealand, A$7.50 in Australia, R$16.99 in Brazil and zł22.99 in Poland right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
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| £4.29 | £4.29 | — | 1 | |
| $4.99 | $4.99 | — | 1 | |
| €4.99 | €4.99 | — | 1 | |
| $4.99 | $4.99 | — | 1 | |
| CA$6.49 | CA$6.49 | — | 1 | |
| NZ$7.39 | NZ$7.39 | — | 1 | |
| A$7.50 | A$7.50 | — | 1 | |
| R$16.99 | R$16.99 | — | 1 | |
| zł22.99 | zł22.99 | — | 1 |
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About Ratings War
"Ratings War" is a thrilling 80,000-word interactive novel by Eddy Webb, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Outwit your rivals at the biggest news network in the industry to win market share and dominate the ratings. As one of the first reporters with a pair of cybernetic eyes, you’ll break stories while you live them—and become a celebrity when you uncover a vast criminal conspiracy.
When you blow the whistle on a human trafficking operation, will you focus on facts or on fame? Will you strike out as an independent, or follow the guidelines of your network? You can escape from an underground organ farm—but can you get your footage on the air and win the Ratings War?
- Play a future-noir story of murder, corruption, and mystery.
- Develop your reporting style as you balance your ambition and integrity.
- Decide what facts make it to air, and how to spin them.
- Break the rules to get your story.
- Play as male, female, or non-binary.
- Straight, gay, and bisexual romance options.
Ratings War — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Got to about chapter 6 or 7 before all the heavily influenced liberal nonsense just ruined the story. I don't appreciate whenever a story forces a political narrative in a story where it has no place. I forwarded through after that. As far as worrying, I'd give the story a solid 5/5. Overall though, I'm giving it a 4/10 because the forced politics ruined the story.8 found this helpful
Well written as some sort of short polar story, but not as a choice novel. Choices are really limited, the branching is obvious and once you made one choice you're quite of forced to stick to all choices similar to that one "skill choice" you made at the beginning. The story is very linear and there is very little differences in the writings or in the story based on your choices. Same can be told about the endings : very little variations. Well written, but not really a choice novel, more like a short kinetic linear novel. Enjoyable, but I would not recommend it because there are'nt really anything specific here and it's not free.4 found this helpful
A well-written choose your own advenure that will especially appeal to anyone who enjoys the Cyberpunk genre. Very Shadowrun feel to the story itself, sans the meta-races. However, I didn't develop the same attachment to my character or the supporting cast that I did in Choice of Robots or Tin Star as examples. It might have been that as a reporter, my character was more of a story observer than a story maker. I also felt like some of the plot itself was contrived and more fed to me as a reader than something that developed through choice-based play. I consider it a decent product for its price.2 found this helpful
Hey ! Nobody write how the story have a big bar of independence for your reporter and get you stray right into the number 1 news corp. And its not a choice, you sign right away. After that its was over for me. No, i know the rest of the story. I refund the game.
I'd skip that one. The writing is a okay, the story and the mistery is a okay - but this is barely a "choose your own adventure", more "choose correct answers, or else". It was over before I figured out what happened, and I'm sure I'll not give it a second reading.
I found the story portrayed in "Ratings War" to be quite interesting. It's sufficiently dark for a cyberpunk setting and I enjoyed rereading it a few times. (7/10) While I’d say the first playthrough was the best, I enjoyed each of them. The only drawback is that some of the choices are railroaded which will become more apparent when you play through the game more than once. But on the whole, I felt like I was in control of my own story, and the endings I got felt fulfilling.
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