What a beautiful surprise! Best game I played in 2025 until now! Very original! Inspired by many previous works, but reaching new heights in interactive narrative direction. It came out from the blue in my Steam recommendations, I knew nothing about it. Released in the end of March by Wired Production, developed by unknown Pollard Studio, a bunch of 30 guys from Shangai, China! Reviews were quite positive, even on the web. I was impressed by some videos on You Tube, showing outstanding graphics and animations. I played the demo and decided to buy and give it a try.

I knew it, I knew it! Indies are way better than trumpery AAA productions from big publishers; lately the latters are giving us only re-heated soup, old and annoying gameplay and mechanics, useless huge open worlds, lot of repetitive secondary missions, a waste of resources. They sell us their boring s..t at $80! The 30 guys from Shangai makes better than Ubisoft and EA together and sell us their really creative product at $25!!! Very inspired, original, passionate work! Level of immersion is really high! They make masterful use of Unreal Engine 5: lot of fascinating assets, outstanding illumination, very smooth interactive experience, state of the art animations, no bugs and flaws at all. Plus, great actors, very good voice over, amazing narrative and art direction, very good dialogues, pleasant soundtrack and musics. The whole experience is deeply immersive and fascinating.

Clearly inspired by Orwell's 1984, developers manage to immerse and suck you into the imagination of film directors as Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, etc), Nolan (Inception Memento), Cronenberg (Videodrome, Existenz, etc) and so on. You live in first person and in an interactive fashion a visionary experience that will blow your mind. It looks like being the protagonist of the movies from the directors above, thanks to state of the art environmental metamorphosys, triggered interactive sequences, scripted interactive scenes and so on. They invent nothing but push narrative interactive further.

Obviously It is not without defects. You can see they were short on budget, the ambitious storytelling would need more NPCs, more interactive dialogues, more assets and interactive scenes, e.g. more flashbacks. Story is out of lines, don't expect to understand everything; authors put too many contents and narrative ambitions with weak logical coherence; many things remain unexplained. Typical mistake of brilliant developers at their first big work with not so big budget.

My suggestion to developers: never interrupting player control, even cut scenes should allow for some minimal interactivity, e.g. changing the visual; add more investigative mechanics; avoid reading documents, prefer audio and video records; in the future, make it VR compatible, and let players to execute real-life actions with no help from interface; add multiple choice dialogues; add more playable flashbacks; enrich the interactions with NPCs; let players embody different characters; use more scripted scenes instead of cut scenes; write more logical and complete story.

In conclusion, if you enjoyed games as Layers of Fear, Edith Finch, Firewatch, Dear Esther, Gone Home, The Invincible, Town of Light, Martha is Dead and so on, and if you enjoyed movies from Lynch, Nolan, Cronenberg, this is the game for you. If you enjoy the expensive re-heated soup from big companies, as Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty or GTA, play this game to see what inspired original videogames art is.

Waiting for the next work developed by the guys at Pollard Studio! Thanks WP for publishing the game worldwide! Please, spread the word, this game deserves more attention!
I'm playing it again before writing a more extensive review.

An incredibly beautiful and sad masterpiece, surpassed any expectations and delivered a fantastic story. If you think about whether or not you should get this game, you definitely should. Visuals, voice acting and story all go hand in hand and deliver a game that I've always wanted.

Masterpiece. Excluding one boss fight and a few very minor bugs, this game literally is everything I wanted.