Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure is a detective, pixel graphics and noir game developed by DigiTales Interactive and published by Assemble Entertainment, WhisperGames and Mayflower Entertainment.
Released on May 20th 2021 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Malay.

It has received 2,351 reviews of which 2,166 were positive and 185 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 3.19€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure into these genres:

Detective Pixel Graphics Noir Interactive Fiction Multiple Endings Cyberpunk Crime Conversation Sci-fi Choices Matter Narration Adventure Text-Based 2D Thriller Linear Drama Futuristic Investigation Story Rich

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
Processor: Multi-core 2.5GHz
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 750M / GeForce GTX 650
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 3 GB available space

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

Just finished the game. Story: 9/10 Gameplay: 9/10 Music: 8.5/10 Art/ graphic: 8/10 This game has a lot of text, so it might feel boring for people who aren’t used to story-focused games.

Nov. 2024

Beautiful pixel art, tight writing, cinematic direction, genuinely difficult decisions and perfect length make this a strong recommend. The stylised camera movement may make you feel sick and controls are awkward to get used to at first are minor flaws. Backtracking to the train station got tedious. Chapter selection after completion would be welcome

Aug. 2024

Initially, I was not very fond of this game. The pixel graphic and game controls were meh, a lot of the activity was unnecessary (open door, push button, exit the elevator, open another door), and a lot of the activities felt like patining by numbers. However, with progressing gameplay, I felt increasingly intrigued. The characterization of the protagonists was well-balanced, the narrative progressed naturally, and the general direction of the game felt more and more contemporary, given the state of the world in the 21st century. The trump card, however, was that the game puts us in very difficult moral dilemmas; we repeatedly have to decide between several options whose outcomes might be devastating. And after the second run-through, I was surprised how certain developments that looked like predestined in the first round, suddenly took a totally different turn - in fact, eight different versions of the storyline exist, ensuring that you can play it more than once. This game gets wholeheartedly my recommendation.

Aug. 2024

Classic hard boiled fiction, some nice twists and turns. A fun game, but seeing all of the endings will take you a while, especially since you can't skip cutscenes or save and quit.

Aug. 2024

Good game, good story, good characters HOWEVER that damn Enter The Multiverse achivement is making me hate the game i love! I'm tired of playing it for the 6th time and we are supposed to play is EIGHT times!!!

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