What Awaits, Aleksey?

Sadly i cannot recommend it. It's not that the game is bad but very underwhelming. The narrative never gets interesting, there are no twists, there are no meaningful choices/consequences during gameplay, the endings are just two options at the end that lead to a little bit of text, amd most of the cutscenes waste your time. The gameplay of decryption letters is fine but the contents are never interesting. Some much potential wasted.

Having a real-life time limit in a deduction game is just a crime against the game genre. Cool that I can pin items on the board, or take notes, it means nothing if I don't have time to do it. The table is tiny, it could be easily 4x bigger with a zoom option. When the table is full "the oldest document from the bottoms was returned", nice, I've got no idea what the game has removed, and I left that item there for a reason. The multiple decryption devices that are supposed to be an important thing in the game, feel like an annoying gimmick.

Huge shoutout to the developer team, I had an absolute blast playing this! You know the puzzle game is good when you frantically take notes while telling yourself to keep going because if you stop you lose your train of thought, and the next day your coworker asks if everything's alright because you look like you haven't slept in a week. 10/10 would get my brain melted again

Fun and quite difficult. It would be helpful if the game made it clearer that you often won't have enough information to correctly identify one person per day, and that missing a few days without submitting guesses is OK. During my first few days, I made some fairly random guesses because I didn't realise necessary information would become available later. I also think some of the clues linking individuals to photographs could be implemented more clearly, too - unfortunately some clues in the photos are difficult to make out due to the art style. But overall I had a great time with this!

really hard, but rewarding to play, hope that devs will make difficulty levels

I enjoyed this a lot for the 3 obsessive evenings spent behind the desk. It's not a huge story about twists and turns of a spy thriller but about the crushing feeling people under repressive systems might go through. These people have already been hurt over decades and you are tasked with pointing the aim at their last resort for justice. The contradiction between the morality of your actions and the addicting gameplay of finding out who the people are has a bittersweet feel to it. I was expecting more from the cryptography but perhaps more math would have distracted from the narratives. Everything feels difficult at first but I was able to finish the game without getting fired on my first run. I hope the developer makes another game, maybe continue the story from the other side.