Tercihlerinizin ve diyalogların ön planda olduğunu görebileceğiniz bu oyunda; siyah beyaz bir atmosferin içerisinde bir polis dedektifi olarak oynanışı sağlarken, üzerinde durmanız gereken çeşitli noktalarla karşılaşabilirsiniz. Oynanışta şüphelileri sorgulama aşamalarıyla da meşgul olabileceğiniz için, bu aşamalarda yapacağınız seçimlerle doğru adımları atmaya çalışıp, işinize yarayacak unsurları elde etmek için çaba gösterebilirsiniz.

visual novel tarzı ilerleyen eğlenceli bir oyun, adli psikolojiyle ilgilenen, polis sorgu videolarını seven herkesin hoşuna gideceğini düşünüyorum

Indie oyun seviyorsanız özellikle politik-polisiye tarzında hikayelerden hoşlanıyorsanız tavsiye ederim. Hikaye daha detaylandırılıp oyun süresi daha uzun tutulabilirmiş ama ben bu tarz oyunları seven biri olarak bu oyunu da sevdim.

Ortalama 8-10 saat civarı süren bu oyunda gerçek bir dedektif rolü üstleniyorsunuz. Yaptığınız kararların cidden oyunun ilerisindeki etkilerini bariz bir şekilde görebiliyorsunuz. Sadece tek sonucu olmayan ve birden farklı yolla bitirebileceğiniz interrogation sizin gerçek düşüncelerinizi ve amacınızı sorguluyor. Hikaye boyunca hangi tarafta olduğunuzu ve neyi savunduğunuzu tekrar düşünmenize yol açıyor. Fiyatına göre dolu dolu bir deneyim veren bu oyun, polisiye gizem ve seçimlerle ilerlemeli oyunları sevenlere birebir olacaktır. Almanızı kesinlikle tavsiye ederim

Interrogation starts with a difficulty/playstyle choice - you either pick "challenging conversational puzzle gameplay" or "narrative experience". I've picked a narrative experience one.
Later on I've tried challenging mode as well and I'd recommend to pick this one as it's slightly more interesting in general. Narrative experience mode is still good though and it's a good choice if you want a more relaxing gameplay like I did this time (you may still fail even in this mode).

So we play as a police detective and do interrogations + lead/manage our subordinates in between. Interrogation mechanics are mostly generic but interesting thanks to well-written dialogue options.
I really liked visuals in this game and the story is good enough to catch your attention + characters are okay.

There're plenty of interesting choices in the game, but sometimes there's a lack of more obvious short-term "decision-consequences" stuff. As an example: I've tried to do some stupid "roleplay" and my character ended up being shot. I didn't really mind but there were literally no signs (and no reasons in my opinion) that it might have happened. And more importantly, there was no clue how to avoid it when the game offered me to replay this chapter + some stat changes were not logical at all during that playthrough
There're no achievements so far and it's quite sad - cleverly designed achievements are essential for a game like this one in my opinion.

All in all, Interrogation: You will be deceived is a nice addition to narrative-driven games. As stated on store page, developers followed the footsteps of several other games like "This War of Mine", "Papers Please", "This is the Police" and "Orwell". I've checked that description after few hours in the game and indeed, some gameplay moments reminded me of those games, especially about "This is the Police" and "Orwell".
Interrogation is not perfect, but close to the best genre representatives in terms of quality. 8/10

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Okay so first, let me be clear. I ABSOLUTELY love nearly every aspect of this game! However, due to strenuous replays and a little bit of lack of guidance, the tediousness has far outweighed my enjoyment which is saying a lot as I've really enjoyed everything else. This review is spoiler free aside from game mechanic discussions (fail conditions)
Pros:
Story - The story is truly engaging. Nothing's worse than a visual novel with a bad story. Interrogation gives you the sense of every character whether you've met them briefly or if they're your go to partner on the task force.
Visuals - I love the art style with a true noir tone. The rough animations and facial expressions really help sell the atmosphere. I felt more like I was interacting with people and not characters if that makes sense.
Music - Music fits, however I did really enjoy putting on a noir playlist to this. Sorry! I do wish there was some ambient music while you're reading briefings/reports. That was the reason I looked to putting on my own playlist. But the music provided (when it is) compliments the game nicely.

Cons:
Ohhhh boy. I understand this could be 100% user error, but I feel like there's a lot here that could be ironed out to make the game more approachable. Let me also preface this by saying, if you give me an option to play as a rogue cop, I'm gonna play as a rogue cop.

Design of play - It might just be my life choices (isn't it always?) but when I try to play as a rogue cop and resort to torture and whatnot. More often than not, it seems to not be the best answer. I mean you could argue duh, but when you're 7 episodes in and have invested in being bad cop, it's disappointing to know you'll rarely resort to it. There's many scenarios where if I didn't pick every exact correct response, I'd fail the interrogation and roughing up the suspects doesn't yield any results.

Lack of guidance. There's not really a clear explanation how any of the PR/Media/Authority parts work. Like it's explained in very literal terms like the media is friendlier with you, but it doesn't really suggest HOW you affect these. I would've thought it'd be obvious, but it doesn't seem so.

I found myself getting assassinated and I didn't know why. The papers suggest retaliation or just bad luck, but the game doesn't explain it. Instead it just has you rewind to the end of your past completed missions. I've found myself locked in a no win scenario. After a case, the game lets you make the PR report first (makes sense) but then makes you go through story, media interviews, more story and then assassinated. Replaying all of that for trial an error in your PR report only to get assassinated over and over is irritating. The only way to remedy this is to replay previous episodes. I'll be honest. I've been playing fast and loose for awhile so I've pretty much taken to replaying the majority of the game again only to get fired/assassinated. Comically I'm not a great cop I know, but really replaying the entire game when the mechanics aren't quite explained as far as impact goes or causality is a lot.

Really it's possible you'll REALLY enjoy this game, but it's also possible you'll find yourself in an endless loop of getting yelled at/murdered.

Unique mix of different genres. It is part visual novel, part choose your own adventure, part puzzle game, part management and above all a temporary tale about ethics.
I'll still have to see it through to the end but I was very positively surprised how this game wraps all those different topics into one coherent interactive story.

Decidedly less fun than I thought it would be. There's not really multiple ways of going about the interrogation.

It's mostly guess work the first time you interrogate a character, you'll make some progress but likely not enough to resolve anything... so you just replay the same thing again, memorizing what questions you need to click and then boom, you beat it on the second try! The fluff in-between investigations where you can send your team out seems entirely pointless.

>Never once use torture, barely ever use intimidation
>Open and honest with press, public, suspects
>Almost get knifed to death by own police force over being too empathetic in interrogations
>Plagued by truly incompetent employees who lose motivation despite saving lives, never succeed in their tasks
>Somehow 'breaching procedure' even though, again, never going off-record
>Boss is furious at me for telling the press I was almost stabbed to death during internal investigation but pyscho stabber faces zero consequences
>Despite all of this, manage to make it to the penultimate interrogation, discover the cult's leadership purely through ethical interrogation methods
>Getting ready to bring these bastards down
>Police chief calls me in
>Fired for not getting results
>Have to restart game from beginning to keep the pigs happy
>Mfw

I find the conversational gameplay fun, but the approval and motivation system is truly such garbage. I get that the police force is supposed to be corrupt and the gameplay illustrates that, but it's to the point that the gameplay is just not fun anymore.

A caveat-ed yes.

At the "normal" level gameplay is fun in a light hearted way. You might have to replay a few of the harder levels once or twice, but generally you'll speed through with no real complications. It is more of a choose your own adventure/word puzzle than a challenge, so keep that in mind if you were expecting deep gameplay. Still, a perfectly fun way to play out a very well illustrated story for a few hours. (Those 21.8 hours as of writing come mostly from leaving the game on overnight)

The story itself plays it decidedly safe and in a heroic manner. Despite the press-tags, you can rest safely assured that there are no real ethical quandaries - the overall simplicity means that decisions on methodology are entirely for your own self gratification, and don't have any notable impact on your ability to succeed or fail. And the devs made sure to back away from any political controversy in their choice of terrorist motivations and actors, so that it plays more like taking down SPECTRE than any real world event.

Now, if you bought it because of it's "thought provoking take on modern issues", you'll be sorely disappointed with that. No moral dilemma. Minimal, heavily sanitized, and at times beyond ludicrously simplified and exaggerated depictions of elements in play that keep things in the heavily academic.

That said, if you bought it for a quick fun game with great illustrations and a heroic detective plot, yeah. It's worth the money.