Holonoptic

Highly entertaining hybrid of corporation management and roleplaying mystery narrative. The management mechanics aren't all that deep, yet they have enough weight and player choice to feel satisfyingly meaningful.

A solid game that at first glance seems to be just a simplistic business management but is instead far more than that. Give it a try, it is not easy and you can scale up the difficulty on top of that. There are multiple endings... yes, in a business game. In fact, this might be one of... if not the only business game with an ending, and surely the first with multiple endings. The only weakness was its U.I, but they have been working hard on solving issues and increasing its efficiency. If this goes on, the game will flow like water in no time. The music is suitable and it plays once in a while or during important events. It is not a constant noise in the background. The type of music is quite pleasant to hear and goes well with the game's universe. The game figures several strong characters with their own personalities which can affect your game if you displease them for example or make them super happy. This could make them leave your company or give you a different ending for them (or even the company's). It is the kind of game that you enjoy getting kicked to the ground by losing and get back up to see where you did wrong. The big fun right now is to discover how …

A truly unique hidden gem. Bought randomly on a whim mostly because the Art looked great and the premise seemed fascinating. I was pleasantly surprised, Holonoptic is as engaging as it is well-written. Definitely a breath of fresh air for management sims.

I was very interested by the aesthetic and premise, though I don't usually play games that have this much strategy involved. Though I felt in over my head at first, it ended up being really engaging and fun, and I found a lot of success just trying things out!

Very interesting and refreshing game.

There's a lot promising and a lot to work on. --I like the flavor and the worldbuilding. The writing is generally pretty solid. --the game is heavily inspired by Disco Elysium at every turn. --The UI is pretty terrible at every level. In particular, assigning executives from one location to another, and then assigning them to a job (which may or may not be possible if they are in transit) takes a lot of clicks and does not work reliably. Functions which need to be done close to each other frequently aren't even close in the game's navigation, e.g. assigning executives to a mission vs. equipping executives with equipment that will make them able to complete the mission. --in general, using the world map is notably terrible, and I'd recommend maybe thinking about getting rid of it altogether. Do we actually need to worry about where in our corporate empire each executive is? Why is it so tedious to move executives between offices (and opportunities). --A lot of the assignment detail is really anti-intuitive. For example, some of the CEO's office missions usually takes a different skill and it'll be an entirely different agent you want in that slot pretty much. Except... why? It'…