An ok attempt at whatever this genre is, it's no The Operator, but it's (mostly) playable and very rough around the edges, being riddled with terrible ESL dialogue that ChatGPT could've done a better job at generating. This game is translated from Chinese so that accounts for some of those issues, but worse are that some of the "puzzles" are just incomprehensible nonsense based off of bad information the game gives you. In places like the "symbols" password or the phone unlock pattern for Jim's phone you will basically have to use a guide because you aren't given correct information, or an indicator that you have bad information and need to work around it. You will also require a guide for the later public opinion "game" which can be found on Steam, because it is unplayable as the Engrish describing each topic makes it incomprehensible as to whether it's good or bad to promote.

The voice acting and art are also not great, two other aspects that quite frankly would've been handled better by AI, and the menu options have text that sometimes don't fit their graphics or are hidden behind them. Overall the presentation and feel is very janky mid-2000s but I'm giving it a yes anyway because I like this genre and at least an attempt was made. At the time of this writing there is already a sequel out so hopefully some of these issues were ironed out, but that remains to be seen.

After one hour I finished the first actual mission and I must say that the story is indeed interesting but the game is so linear and doesn't really let you do anything I didn't find any motivation to continue with it.

An interesting and fun game with an great story with lots of twists, as you explore people's hidden lives.

I think the game hits a sweet spot between making the game too easy by holding you hand through everything, and too hard where where you actually need a computer science degree to understand whats happening. It highlights important text for you as well as automatically recording any important information you get. The game also gives you a few clues if your lost, but you still need to pay attention and understand whats happening.

A few complaints however, firstly the voice acting is not the best. Most of the time it's just bland delivery but Van is outright cringy and annoying. There are a few times when i thought "That's not fair," or "how was i suppose to figure that out." But these moments aren't common, and you always get a couple of those in these type of games. They're are a few moments (mainly during phishing and hacking minigames) where you aren't given enough information to chose the right answer so i usually had to just trial and error these parts.

Overall Its game that strikes a perfect difficulty, (mostly). Combined with a good and engaging story and you've got a good indie game. There is a lot of reading however so it may not be for everyone, but if you don't mind then i would pick this up.