I am not sure whether i recommend this game or not.
I was amazed by it and quickly drawn in the story at the beginning, but the last third of the game dissapointed me greatly.

One thing I wanna compliment that im still very satisfied with even now is the gameplay – I expected a usual visual novel, point and click type of game, but this game takes you into your role as a hacker with a creative twist on puzzles. I especially loved hacking and controlling drones and bugbots that required you to think strategically and plan your path with stealth. Also some locations required you to crack a 4-digit code that you would solve by encrypting notes and images scattered around, which is a strategy i used to see a lot in old flash games and i really miss in modern puzzle games. Sometimes these puzzles were too straightforward, sometimes annoyingly complicated, but most of the time they were my favourite part of the game.

However, I just cannot overlook the story that saddened me as it got progressively worse. All the characters had interesting designs, they even had a basis that you could build a complex lore upon, but it was never really used. Stories of separate gigs were fine, but the major events in the game felt soulless. Especially the character and the whole story arc of Jessica. Oh wow. this girl from this one gig you finished looks pretty. And guess what? she wants to date you. Heres a scene where you two are on a date but we're not gonna let you see how you speak, just trust it, youre getting along!... she wants to break up with you because your job is dangerous... Oh no! shes in danger!! please save her and act like you care! <--a recap how the story goes, pretty heavy spoilers. And the actual ending plot twist is even more out of place. I just couldn't symphatize with any of it and I couldn't place myself into the role of the main character, and since the story is very linear I couldn't affect her approach, so she became very unlikeable to me.

Despite all this, from the very beginning and even now I believe this game had so much potentional. I just feel like the few devs, that I can tell poured their heart into this, let it go to waste. Hopefully they learned from this game because it really had a spark that I dont see very often in smaller games like this one.

I am not sure whether i recommend this game or not. I was amazed by it and quickly drawn in the story at the beginning, but the last third of the game dissapointed me greatly. One thing I wanna compliment that im still very satisfied with even now is the gameplay – I expected a usual visual novel, point and click type of game, but this game takes you into your role as a hacker with a creative twist on puzzles. I especially loved hacking and controlling drones and bugbots that required you to think strategically and plan your path with stealth. Also some locations required you to crack a 4-digit code that you would solve by encrypting notes and images scattered around, which is a strategy i used to see a lot in old flash games and i really miss in modern puzzle games. Sometimes these puzzles were too straightforward, sometimes annoyingly complicated, but most of the time they were my favourite part of the game. However, I just cannot overlook the story that saddened me as it got progressively worse. All the characters had interesting designs, they even had a basis that you could build a complex lore upon, but it was never really used. Stories of separate gigs were fine, but the major events in the game felt soulless. Especially the character and the whole story arc of Jessica. [spoiler]Oh wow. this girl from this one gig you finished looks pretty. And guess what? she wants to date you. Heres a scene where you two are on a date but we're not gonna let you see how you speak, just trust it, youre getting along!... she wants to break up with you because your job is dangerous... Oh no! shes in danger!! please save her and act like you care![/spoiler] <--a recap how the story goes, pretty heavy spoilers. And the actual ending plot twist is even more out of place. I just couldn't symphatize with any of it and I couldn't place myself into the role of the main character, and since the story is very linear I couldn't affect her approach, so she became very unlikeable to me. Despite all this, from the very beginning and even now I believe this game had so much potentional. I just feel like the few devs, that I can tell poured their heart into this, let it go to waste. Hopefully they learned from this game because it really had a spark that I dont see very often in smaller games like this one.