radiofloyd Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 I first heard of Read Only Memories two years ago when it was being kickstarted by a company called GaymerX. Initially I thought it would be some kind of very in your face LGBT game, but then after I watched a couple of videos I thought it looked really cool. Anyway it was released in October. I picked it up in the Steam winter sale and have played a couple of sessions of it. It's great. (I should say, I don't intend to flood the forum with threads for indie games but if I think a game is good enough to recommend, then I'll create a thread for it, unless other people object). A couple of immediate pluses, this game looks great and sounds great (not all indie games do...). It's an adventure game set in Neo San-Francisco in 2064, the gameplay, looks and music are very much in the vein of Policenauts (and I assume Snatcher, although I haven't played it). You do have an inventory and interact with objects in the environment but the bulk of the game has been dialogue. In terms of the LGBT aspect, I've already encountered a fairly diverse range of characters so I can see how that is going to be incorporated into the game, but it doesn't look to be a game "about" that subject. As you can see, it's very colourful. The characters that are speaking, in this case your AI companion Turing, change their expression while they speak. That seems to be his neutral face. Although it was developed in the US, the game does feel very Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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