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The Red Strings Club
"The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy."
Details
- Released
- January 22, 2018
- Developer
- Deconstructeam
- Genres
- Puzzle · Simulator · Adventure · Indie · Visual Novel
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
How it plays
Time to beat · 4 player times (IGDB)
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The Red Strings Club Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Is absolute obedience the fine print of eternal happiness?
A cyberpunk exploration of humanity, manipulation and getting tanked, The Red Strings club is lovely and melancholy and well worth a look.
Every other lie I, as Brandeis, told left a sour taste in my mouth and while The Red Strings Club’s linear storyline means you have no choice but to take on the aforementioned corporation, you don’t have the luxury of being in the right. Even though the game takes a mere four hours to complete, you’ll still be mulling over the game days later. Play it with a friend and there’s every chance you’ll be debating the questions it raises well into the night. The Red Strings Club’s superb soundtrack is the icing on the cake, injecting a further dose of film noir, evoking not only Blade Runner but oth...
Visually captivating cyberpunk adventure, accompanied by a great soundtrack.
A stylish if slightly familiar slice of high concept dystopian sci-fi.
The Red Strings Club is not just a game but an experience. It is a cyberpunk narrative-driven game about taking down a corporate conspiracy with only bartending
At last call, I decided to order a scotch on the rocks. I wanted something that would linger on the palette much like how I’ve been thinking about The Red Strings Club since finishing it. The memorable characters and familiar cyberpunk story of a mega corporation attempting to “fix” humanity make Red Strings an enjoyable ride. The gameplay sections are largely forgettable and serve more as distractions with just a dash of purpose. Elements like your current objectives and path through the story aren’t really explained, and it’s possible to feel lost or without purpose due to a lack o…
Red Strings Club is more of a visual novel than a true adventure game, but its roughly four-hour story will give you some topics for your brain to chew on. The conversational gameplay, not to mention the drink mixing minigame, are a lot of fun.
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It’s no surprise to anyone who knows me that I absolutely love how bonkers Devolver Digital is. I love the way they swim against the tide in the gaming industry, often releasing the craziest and most entertaining indies out there. Their latest offering for the Switch, The Red Strings Club, is yet another very unusual game in their catalogue, but sadly, this is one fine example that “unusual” doesn’t always mean “fun”.
The question of how far we allow their designs to shape our lives has never been more urgent. The Red Strings Club does a good job of framing this problem, and allowing us to explore its dimensions.