Femida
Art Interactive · 2020 · Indie, Simulation, RPG, Nudity, Sexual Content
PC
Positive82% · 17
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About Femida
Femida - a nonlinear point-and-click indie game about justice where you play the role of a judge. Story-driven decision-based detective game experienced from a unique perspective.
The videogame is set in a dystopian world of the State. The State has recently undergone a violent revolution and rapidly restructures. In a year, it transitioned from a totalitarian regime and now struggles to establish a republic. Provisional Government lustrated most of the public servants so the capital needs fresh blood. You win the Labor Lottery to work at Metropolis(pretend you read these names for the first time), the capital of the State. The hero, Demian Mardoch, accepts the summon leaving countryside life with his wife and kids back in the Town. The transfer to Metropolis promises a fulfilling job, good money, and many opportunities. You were born there, your mother still resides in the capital and works for the government. But it's not the only reason you accepted the offer. Your father disappeared during the revolution and his fate is still unknown to this day.
The game has 2 layers: your job as a judge and your personal investigation into what happened to your father.
Judge's duty
The first layer is your job. This is NOT an accurate simulation of what a judge's job is. It is a fictionalized distillation of it. We didn't aim for realism, we want you to have fun doing it.
Hero's duty
The latter layer is about your investigation into the fate of your father. This part will look like a quest or... you can call it a visual novel. Not a weird one, we promise...or maybe not.
The videogame is set in a dystopian world of the State. The State has recently undergone a violent revolution and rapidly restructures. In a year, it transitioned from a totalitarian regime and now struggles to establish a republic. Provisional Government lustrated most of the public servants so the capital needs fresh blood. You win the Labor Lottery to work at Metropolis(pretend you read these names for the first time), the capital of the State. The hero, Demian Mardoch, accepts the summon leaving countryside life with his wife and kids back in the Town. The transfer to Metropolis promises a fulfilling job, good money, and many opportunities. You were born there, your mother still resides in the capital and works for the government. But it's not the only reason you accepted the offer. Your father disappeared during the revolution and his fate is still unknown to this day.
Judge & Detective
The game has 2 layers: your job as a judge and your personal investigation into what happened to your father.
Judge's duty
The first layer is your job. This is NOT an accurate simulation of what a judge's job is. It is a fictionalized distillation of it. We didn't aim for realism, we want you to have fun doing it.
Hero's duty
The latter layer is about your investigation into the fate of your father. This part will look like a quest or... you can call it a visual novel. Not a weird one, we promise...or maybe not.
Features
- Do you like moral dilemmas and complicated decisions in games? How about a game filled with them?
- The story is tailored by your choices. Well, not really but there are from 4 to 7 endings depending on how you count.
- Only one good ending and it's a challenge to achieve it.
- Dark and puzzling plot with plenty of room for theorizing and guessing.
- You don't have to constantly suck up to different sides like in other similar games.
- The hero doesn't make conclusions on his own. The final call is always up to you.
- However, the hero has his own personality, so you perceive the world not objectively but through his eyes.
- Find your father. We know you liked a thousand plots about it before.
- Read the reactions to your sentences and learn what's happening in 3 newspapers, each with different points of view. The most trusted news sources in the State.
- Keep in touch in your family by writing letters. At least here she will text you first.
- You can call people using an oddly satisfying rotary dialer.
- Dating sim. You can cheat on your spouse and...something will happen.
- Try human flesh or become food for worms if you aren't careful.
- Old fashioned Quest/text adventure. NOT a visual novel, but maybe...
- Politically incorrect and dark humor.
- Original Judge Simulator. Femida was started back in 2016.
Depressed mind suffering from a neurological condition produced this mysterious, at times horrifying, at times surreal, story. The game initially had no good ending, only later getting one and being only fully flashed out after recovering from the mental health issues.Note:
The universe of Femida is generalized and draws inspiration from different cultures and historical events. We don't make allusions to any particular real-life political parties or figures, nor do we promote any political message. The game illustrates corruption, confirmation bias, prejudice, the presumption of guilt.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This is a great concept - just not sure how well its executed. The writing is rough and the reading becomes tedious (the font style is a bit hard on the eyes). Would love to see it revamped maybe with some voice acting to add more to it.5 found this helpful
This game looks and sounds like a free to play web game (very 2000s newgroundsy to me.) But, it's on steam and costs money for some reason. The writing and dialogue is pretty awful. Lots of typos just literally everywhere, and trying to ignore that. The content of the writing itself just isn't very good. As the writing is pretty key to this game, this makes it a pretty bad game. If you ignore the bad writing (for a story focused dialogue game,) the game mechanics are also pretty bad and tedious. It feels a bit like they stole some of the game mechanics from other similar games without being aware of what made those games good or fun. Maybe that's why I get the vibe of web game that someone stuck a price tag on. Though the audio very much clinches this for me as it's that annoyingly repetitive type most of these games have (probably free.) I tried giving this game a second chance, then I realized the main mechanic for the court scene was just remembering which dialogue trees make the court angry and avoiding those. There was a few other mechanics but they seemed about as lazy as that. To say something nice, I was fine with the art style, though it did seem a bit like wikihow art. I…5 found this helpful
Femida is a "Papers Please" style text reading decision game. You're a judge in an alternative post WW2 type society and you're presented with various cases as part of an overarching story and you must read documentation carefully to make decisions that influence the overall story... like a badly framed Choose Your Own Adventure, but formatted like a 1998 browser/Flash game. Yeah, a poor idea implemented poorly... this has no real value for gamers as a serious PC game. This game has been translated from some other language into English... badly. If this was done through Google Translate, Google Translate should feel ashamed of itself. Regardless, the language in this game is broken and will put off a lot of gamers. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The controls can't be customis…2 found this helpful
Fun if you enjoy reading a lot, but the game is buggy, and the UI feels like an old point-and-click game. The story is great. Make sure to save often and use multiple slots.
Honestly, this is the kind of game that looks really cool, then you get into it and it's kind of crap, but then you keep playing it anyway because it's short and still interesting. It's just an obscure little weird Russian game that feels like it was made on a shoestring budget and didn't spend enough time in the oven, but it's got a lot of heart to it and if you can overlook the fact the writing is sloppy and typos and grammar mistakes abound, it's worth a look. Even when cookies don't bake long enough, the dough is still tasty.
quirky little title with multiple endings and seriously difficult choices to make....buggy though
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