Feel like you haven?t played a good point-and-click adventure game in a while" Or perhaps The Walking Dead isn?t what you?re looking for in the genre right now. No worries, Daedalic Entertainment says, because their upcoming dystopian sci-fi adventure game State of Mind is due to release in just one day. We?ve played this version of the future, and have our thoughts ready in our State of Mind review below.
Just 30 Years From Now
What will the world look like in the year 2048" No one can predict the future with any sort of certainty, but it is fun to speculate. Daedalic has come up with one potential vision of the future, a world filled with drones, megacities, advanced AI, and of course, virtual reality that becomes so good, people leave the real world behind to go live out their dream lives in ways that aren?t easily attainable outside the virtual sphere. Of course, any technology which has the potential to change the course of human history can be used for purposes both benevolent and sinister. State of Mind looks at both applications in a game that spans 10-15 hours, depending on the pace of the player. Without diving into spoiler-filled specifics, State of Mind follows two protagonists, Richard and Adam. These two people share a lot in common: both are journalists working at a large news outlet, both are married with a son, and both are recovering from an accident involving an autonomous car, something which shouldn?t ever occur in this supposed utopian futur...