I don't feel like I can truly call this a detective game, or even a puzzle game. The choices available are limited (2-3 outcomes), and almost none of the choices that are made throughout the game affect the ending, or really the flow of the story in general. Choices do not matter. Speaking of the ending, I felt that they were quite sudden, especially "Thoughts are free", and didn't follow entirely plausibly from the actions you took to get there. How exactly does the investigator incriminating oneself IMMEDIATELY result in the termination of Orwell? How does an incredibly sophisticated surveillance program like Orwell, even still in test phase, get torn down in a day? Never mind that there were probably backup investigators lined up, or that The Party likely would not have wanted to let go of the project so easily. If the main message of the story is that "surveillance cannot be impartial and bias will always be present", then it seems careless to throw away the secondary message - "surveillance is pervasive and nigh impossible to detect and curtail once it reaches a tipping point" - in the final moment. And yet curtail in an instant, they did.

Credit where it is due, the character dialogue and writings felt very genuine, and portrayed each person convincingly.

Other reviewers have already said all of this, better. Like this one.

I don't feel like I can truly call this a detective game, or even a puzzle game. The choices available are limited (2-3 outcomes), and [spoiler] almost none of the choices that are made throughout the game affect the ending, or really the flow of the story in general[/spoiler]. Choices do not matter. [spoiler] Speaking of the ending, I felt that they were quite sudden, especially "Thoughts are free", and didn't follow entirely plausibly from the actions you took to get there. How exactly does the investigator incriminating oneself IMMEDIATELY result in the termination of Orwell? How does an incredibly sophisticated surveillance program like Orwell, even still in test phase, get torn down in a day? Never mind that there were probably backup investigators lined up, or that The Party likely would not have wanted to let go of the project so easily. If the main message of the story is that "surveillance cannot be impartial and bias will always be present", then it seems careless to throw away the secondary message - "surveillance is pervasive and nigh impossible to detect and curtail once it reaches a tipping point" - in the final moment. And yet curtail in an instant, they did. [/spoiler] Credit where it is due, the character dialogue and writings felt very genuine, and portrayed each person convincingly. Other reviewers have already said all of this, better. Like [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/MangoMaraudr/recommended/491950/]this one[/url].