Whispers of a Machine
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Whispers of a Machine is a adventure, point & click and detective game
developed by Clifftop Games and Faravid Interactive
and published by Raw Fury.
Released on April 17th 2019 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Italian and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 1,782 reviews of which 1,669 were positive and 113 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 300 MHz Processor
- Memory: 128 MB RAM
- Graphics: 640 x 360 32 bit
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 800 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: OSX 10.9 Mavericks
- Processor: 300 MHz Processor
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600 ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Apple M1 chipsets are not supported
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Detective point&click game, set in rather unique vision of post-apocalyptic world. ✅ [*] Great story with some surprising twists. [*] Unique post-apo scenario combined with great worldbuilding. Game provides enough information to easily get the background of events and find out what happened. [*] Game adapts to how you play it. [*] 3 different paths of development that can be mixed in-between. [*] Great art-style. Modernized retro, similar to the point&click games from early 90’s. [*] Puzzles are logical; you always have an access to proper tools to beat them. [*] 3 vastly different endings. [*] Achievements are plot-related and not very obvious (basically a reward for “licking” every wall). 😐 Soundtrack was nice and fitting but it is not something really memorable. Most likely, you will quickly forget about it. ❌ [*] Backtracking. Because of the way it is animated, it gets tiring towards the end of the game. [*] Augments can only be used in selected locations. Although I understand reason for such decision, it still leaves some disappointment. [*] Not enough puzzles.
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You know a game is Good™ when you finish it and get overwhelmed with feelings of anger, sadness, emptiness and frustration that there is no more game to play. But than you remember that you can play it again and make different choices and all is well in the world. 5/5 Blue Vials.
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This is a fine and competent game for any adventure game fan especially old school ones. Everything here is serviceable so I would wait for a sale. A few things brings the enjoyment down for me: -lack of mouth animations and animations in general but this is more of a minor annoyance -didn't like the parts of the husband and the antagonist but not a deal breaker -the fact that you can't really tell which are the empathic/assertive/aggresive responses...they should be color coded like in Mass Effect and it doesn't help that some actions also change your alignment unexpectedly sometimes even 3 times in a row -This is all exacerbated by the fact that the game autosaves constantly so there's no going back, since there's no manual save so that means yes, you have to play the game 3 times to get all the cheevos and this sucks thanks to the last point
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Swedish science-fiction adventure in the cozy mode, as you send Inspector Vera snoopin' round the limited confines of a mushroom-topped tower town for one eventful week. It's the post-collapse and people are crawling around the carcass of the great silicon beast like latch key lice; yes, every scrap of technology driven by AI or CPU in the robotic glory days was slapped violently from humanity's hand nearly a century ago -- now the only folk with high tech are the tip-top ruling class, who juice their enforcers and detectives with nanomachine-rich goop called Blue. Though there are maybe several puzzles of the classic adventure type, much of the work involves realistic logic, or perhaps the judicious application of your superpowers while following logical lines: going around Nordsund and talking the hardscrabble folk into spilling their beans, or sneaking into the right places to grab evidence are the primary things -- exactly what Phillip Marlowe or Paul Pine do much of the time (but instead of applying SF superpowers, those classic detectives are always doing things like taking lead saps without permanent brain damage and shooting guns out of the hands of dangerous dames). There are three styles of approach you can use for your Vera: A-hole force, womanly empathy, and cold calculation. There is a personality pyramid in your inventory bar with Empathy, Force, and Logic at its points and a white dot showing your orientation on it, and how you solve puzzles and talk to people in the first half determines most of how you will have to play the second half -- how you'll talk to people later on, and impressively . . . the very powers your reactive AI goop gives to Vera ! It's a pretty nice set-up and it makes sense too -- because if you've been playing the game all along as a jerk who uses her nanojuice to rip doors off their hinges (instead of puzzling or nicely wheedling them open), you shouldn't just up and be able to talk like a diffident little flower with a spark of investigatory determination flickering somewhere in her petals, or be able to cast a gentle techno-spell on people that makes them temporarily forget their troubles without springing a red leak from the nose. I dig detective tales of the classic kind and I certainly enjoy science-fiction. This overcast, slowburn adventure took me in with its world building-in-a-box and do-it-yourself approach to its heroine. It's from the maker of the estimable Kathy Rain and feels Wadjet Eye as all get-out, if that has as much cachet with you as it does with me. (Only thing that bugs me about the game is that you don't get to see what the ultimate results of your final choice are! I know there are hard limits in a production as small as this which already shows remarkable ambition, but I think an extra screen or two with minimal animation would have got the point across.)
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I would give this game a horizontal thumb, it basically pales compared to the Wadjet Eyes games, because most of its good sides have their drawbacks; - Pixel art isn't too "pixelated" so the scenes can be pretty detailed BUT The environment is never original or especially compelling, it's a very bland future. - interesting detective story BUT in the end I never got truly invested and committed with the overall story and characters - great idea to have different powers available at all times BUT You barely get to use them except on very special occasions which are dictated by the main quest. - Game is Short BUT it still manages to feel incomplete, with many locations that you never get to explore It never felt mysterious enough, I never felt a connection towards the characters, but you can't deny there is some lore behind it all, and I liked progressing through the story so....
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Online players
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Developer
Clifftop Games,
Faravid Interactive
Publisher
Raw Fury
Release
17 Apr 2019
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