OK, so you don’t really get more Cyberpunk than Rutger Hauer and a post-apocalyptic run down apartment/hotel block.
Hauer delivers the voice for your player, Daniel Lazarski, a specialist criminal investigator who has the equipment and augmentation to interrogate a person’s memories. After a strange phone call from his estranged son, Daniel goes to investigate the address the call came from, and enters a tangled web of corporate espionage and virtual memories.
I don’t really get jump scares from movies anymore, but when you’re entered the memories of a recently deceased murder victim, and reality changes at a turn of the head I really enjoyed this game. check out the playlist above, and definitely invest in this one.
There are all sorts of films that everyone should have seen, albums you should have listened to, regardless of your interest in the genre, and this game should be listed amongst “Games you should have played”, whether or not you’re sold on the Cyberpunk genre.
For a 3 year old game, I’d say Observer doesn’t show much in the way of dating. It’s not a large open world game, but also is not particularly linear for most of the game. Even at “completionist” level, howlongtobeat.com only lists it at 10 and a half hours, but there’s the very real possibility of death during this one.
Bloober team have a respected game “Layers of Fear” under their belt and having played both, I can safely say they do know how to disorient a player. Even when I was expecting strange wierd shit to kick off, I still got the heebie-jeebies during this game, and the cyborg menace you have to run and hide from toward the later sections of the game was an extremely unsettling threat that made the hairs on the back of my neck book a holiday to warmer climes.