Gamedec - Definitive Edition

Cool concept, but there are just too many instance where you can softlock quests for innocuous reasons like talking to an NPC more than twice or doing 1 thing before doing another. I don't necessarily need handholding, but I find I want to take a specific path and then run around stuck for 20 minutes with no one talking to me or responding to me is making me lose my enjoyment of the game. A lot of the fixes from devs chatting in the forums end up being "lose some progress and go back several saves to unstick yourself or give up on the thing you want to do" and I could understand that response if the game gave you feedback like "sorry you locked yourself out of this option, you're going to have to try something else", but I don't KNOW that I'm stuck for 5-10 minutes and spend another 5-10 minutes hunting around on forums.

Bizarre fever dream of a detective game. I’m not sure if I even finished the game or who the characters are or what happened. I just started shooting everyone because they kept talking too much. So 10/10 for making “Shoot them” a recurring option?

A detective without fights sounded creepy, but it went wrong. Leveling up through knowledge of languages ​​and psychology, and not through guns. I really felt smart after exposing one clown. The dialogues are lively, the choices are felt

Good game, could be bit longer - but definitely ending is satisfactory. I like the fact you really make assumptions with facts, so like real detective work. Pretty solid game - 8/10.

good

Gamedec is a detective-focused narrative CRPG set in an interesting cyberpunk world, where people play in these matrix-style games called Virtualiums and experience much of their daily lives in them. It's in these Virtualiums that crime occurs, and your job as a Gamedec is to investigate and uncover it. But there's more to the world than first appears, something I won't spoil, but it changes things drastically. The gameplay is mostly carried by its skill tree, with four different types of points you accumulate depending on your playstyle. This leads into my biggest criticism: the way skills interact with dialogue feels a bit inverted. Early on, the game is very focused, you simply don’t have many skills yet, so you don’t get a lot of extra dialogue options. Later, as you unlock more of the skill tree, the game becomes much wider in approach. By the end, you almost feel like a “detective god” rather than a character with a defined identity. That said, this is somewhat balanced by a pretty good deduction system, which isn’t about clearly good or bad choices, but more about different shades of grey. Your decisions actually change how things unfold, and it often feels like a prop…