Influence, Inc.

It's a good mini-game, not a sandbox. It's a "decision-tree" based game with a lot of "branches" (decision->results). By the time I reviewed this, they got about 4-5 scenario ending with its own objectives. Worth your while, got immersed about 1.5 hours in, but get reset when the final review came in and the game is over. As I said, at first I thought this game is a sandbox where you build up your career with infinite use-cases, but I was wrong. In the middle of the game, as developers I just found out that every hashtags, topics and corporation just a set piece with their own fixed scenarios. It would be a nice immersive game if anyone could turn this game into a sandbox where you can get infinite scenarios and auto-generated hashtags as you play along. So yeah, basically this game is a "decision-tree" game, you move along until you finish it. The thrill is there are some conditions that you should keep to make the game going. Recommended to kill some free time for those who loves text driven game. Treat this as a mini-game from Democracy 4.

Pretty good but, overall, counter-intuitive gameplay. There's little guidance on whether or not what you're investigating with the compromiser is going to dig anything up, resulting in wasted time and irritation. Why not add a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ option to sav IN-GAME to avoid the tedium of restarting it all over again? Not fun, overall.

Its fun because in a way you're learning what attracts "society".....I'm not sure how stretchy these...."reactions" are but I'd say the outcomes come close to reality.....at least our current reality. .v.;;; If you like social project type games like REIGN, this is your type of game B)

I love the concept but quite honestly I think the game is poorly made. It is overly convoluted with tutorials that seemingly never stop because there are so many different systems, mechanics and wee little features to learn. Once you think you got the hang of things a new thing pops up to worry about and spend time to learn along side all of the other things that you already need to consult the tutorial wiki for constantly, and it feels like it never stops. The hashtag & topic system feels like going 8 sub-menus deep into a mouse-over header in an ancient version of Word. I went into the game not expecting it to be so filled to the brim with different systems and mechanics, it became much more stressful to play than it was enjoyable and entertaining. Bad first impression, it didn't go away after 40 minutes, not for me thanks. I'm sure there are other ways of conveying these systems in a less confusing manner, perhaps start with the UI, it makes things feel quite crammed in. Also maybe there's no need for so many systems... If there has to be a built-in tutorial wiki that has to constantly be referenced that also seemingly never ends perhaps you need to take a step-back and re-th…

I found this game so satisfying. You get to decide between profit and morality... and manipulate media accordingly. But be ready to face the consequences! At one point, I had to take a breather and reflect what I just caused. A well thought indie-game which highlight media manipulation! Loved how the music changed when I started to take on more... hmm... sinister missions. It added to the change of ambiance and immersiveness of me becoming the villain. I played 3 games and got 2 of the 5 endings so far. After the tutorial 1.5h, each subsequent game took approximatly 40-50 min to finish. Will try to unlock the rest of the endings as well.

Nice game. The idea is great and the implementation a little less so because I don't think the interface is very good. It's too cumbersome and annoying to find the info and documents you're looking for. But overall, I enjoyed the game. There are five endings, but there should probably be more because you can get the "status quo" ending even when you change society significantly, just not in one of the game's four predefined ways. But you can do a playthrough pretty quickly, so it's not hard to play around with all the different things you can do. It's a fun game and a great concept that reminds you about all the dark forces lurking about on social media.