Keyword: A Spider's Thread
City From Naught Inc. · 2021 · Puzzle, Detective, Immersive Sim, Indie, Story Rich
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 239 📈 Making a comeback 93%
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About Keyword: A Spider's Thread
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter. Play as Guo, a father with a complex past, who must use all the tools at his disposal to find his daughter, Sala.
Solve problems as you would in real life, hack into emails and social media, and dive into the dark web to find your daughter’s whereabouts, all the while uncovering secrets within your own home. Use binoculars to spy into the homes of neighbors, discover lurking enemies, and look over the city of Toronto to find important clues and put the pieces together.
Straddle the line between reality and the game as you depend on your natural intuition to guide you to your next step. With no dialogue prompts revealing answers it will be up to you to save Sala. Get lost in time loops as you discover if your past is all an illusion, or if it really is as you remember. Can all be forgiven? Is redemption possible? Or is there truly no way out?
Solve problems as you would in real life, hack into emails and social media, and dive into the dark web to find your daughter’s whereabouts, all the while uncovering secrets within your own home. Use binoculars to spy into the homes of neighbors, discover lurking enemies, and look over the city of Toronto to find important clues and put the pieces together.
Straddle the line between reality and the game as you depend on your natural intuition to guide you to your next step. With no dialogue prompts revealing answers it will be up to you to save Sala. Get lost in time loops as you discover if your past is all an illusion, or if it really is as you remember. Can all be forgiven? Is redemption possible? Or is there truly no way out?
- Set in the near-future of 2048 in a city inspired by Toronto, Keyword merges cyberpunk with traditional Chinese aesthetic, creating an eerie and immersive environment.
- Utilize binoculars to tap into your investigative side and uncover if people are who they say they are.
- Immersive soundtrack that mirrors the emotional tone of the gameplay by Seycara.
- Travel through time loops, changing your view on reality and evaluating if forgiveness is always possible.
- Reconsider the consequences and impact of sharing your data and information online.
- Gripping and thought-provoking narrative written by Future Science Fiction Master award-winning author, Jiangshan.
- Three difficulty modes that let you decide the level of challenge you’re willing to take on with a flexible hint system if you get stuck.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I saw this game from that Cyber Manhunt, then I bought it and I thought that it would have the same quality as Cyber Manhunt. Unfortunately, I was wrong! The storyline is very poor and the gameplay is f*cked up!6 found this helpful
I was recommended this game given an alleged similarity to Cyber Manhunt and Orwell, but I think it is extremely inferior and frankly painfully disengaging. Both Cyber Manhunt and Orwell are games that do this concept infinitely better in every respect, and I would not recommend this game to anybody. If you're looking for something that does this well, Cyber Manhunt is better for Chinese speakers, and Orwell is better for English speakers, though I have also heard good things about Song of Farca.4 found this helpful
For me this is a classic example of a game that I want to give a "sideways thumb". It has some really great aspects - the ambience, the concept of the binoculars mechanic, the idea of the detective being in a locked room instead of the victim. However, there are a couple of things that didn't work for me, and that really detracted from the experience: - The bizarre change of pace and style in the middle "spiritual" section was perplexing and annoying, with lots of boring dialogue that you can't skip. - Some of the visual searching is very tedious and immersion-breaking because of the very small asset pool that is used to furnish the buildings you can see into. The price seems high for the experience it provides. I'm not obsessed with dollars per hour of gameplay, but this isn't a consistently good enough game to justify the price given its length (I clocked 3.5 hours and I was AFK for 30-60 minutes of that as I forgot I left the game running). Overall I would say this game is worth buying if you love trying new detective-style games and it's on a good sale.3 found this helpful
Good short puzzle game. Took me around 3 hours. Two hours if I didn't step away from my computer, and potentially under that if you never get stumped. Basically the premise is you use clues from the internet and your vantage point over the city to spy on and "hack" people, but it's like real-life hacking, that is to say, you are just figuring out what their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ passwords are since apparently nobody in 2048 Toronto has 2-factor authentication. But I mostly kid. If you like neat puzzle games and games you can finish in one sitting, this is a good one. And I am excited to see how they expand on the concept in a sequel.1 found this helpful
Fun yet short detective game with fairly reasonable solutions to the puzzles, and a generous hint system if you do get stuck which I only had to use once in my playthrough.
First playthrough: Give Buddha a sushi Fall out the window Stare at the ceiling in the temple After finishing: Set your computer to 4/15/2030 and go back in, one last time.
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