Have you played Lifeline" It came out in 2015 and had a very clever concept: it turned one of the primary purposes of a phone - sending and receiving messages - into a game. The game had you talking to a survivor of a spaceship crash and you couldn't do anything but advise him, all the while trying to keep him alive. At its core, Lifeline was a choose-your-own-adventure game, but its use of "real-time" messaging as the main game mechanic made the game feel more like a real-life communication rather than a spreadsheet of choices and consequences. As much as it tried to imitate real life, though, Lifeline was a bit too stilted, the communication never really tricking you into believing that the person on the other side of the fictional line was a real human being.
Mr. Robot: 1.51exfilitrati0n [$2.99] uses a similar gimmick to Lifeline; you find a phone on the ground that uses a new messaging app, and then you use the capabilities of that app to communicate with people and perform all kinds of - mostly-insidious - tasks. Where Mr. Robot stands out, though, is in the way it succeeds in making the player suspend disbelief. Communicating with the rest of the "people" in the game feels like talking to real people, the kind that use internet-speak fluently and the kind you probably chat with every day.
Through this "faithful" simulation of contemporary communication and through some other simple - yet clever - tricks, Mr. Robot managed to draw...