Not For Broadcast Reviews

Amazing gameplay, never gets boring imo, and there's always something in the back to keep you engaged and happy. The way this game progresses is wonderous

A very unique and creative game that had even through a predictable story and heavy-handed approach to political commentary managed to feel fresh and captivating all throughout. Very much recommended!

I like the game, I like the characters, the story arcs, the politics, the game mechanics, and the story choices. The only thing I would say is annoying is that after you beat the game once, if you want to get the other endings, you have to watch mostly all the same footage again with no way to really speed up the gameplay at all. Otherwise, very fun. also I think some of the achivments are hid behind dlcs which is annoying, is they could make it so the dlcs are only available if you buy the respective dlc that would be nice, because I would liek to 100% percent the game but i don't want to buy all the dlcs yet.

one of my all-time fav game/experience live, laugh, love jeremy donaldson

This is one of the most fun and hilarious narrative games I think I've ever played. From feeling like you're really a part of a news broadcast to the twists and turns of the story, this remains such an underrated game imo. It's been a few years since I've played it, but I still think back to this game sometimes - thinking that it was all a fever dream, when it was really just THAT good. 10/10

When you're controlling the cameras in a broadcast, cutting back and forth between different shots and trying to anticipate who's going to talk next and who might have a good reaction to capture, this game is genuinely fun. Unfortunately that's only about half of the game. The other half is sitting through a text based political narrative that seems confused with itself and what message it's trying to convey. It's very anti-left in incredibly nonsensical ways, playing this game is like being a Fox Newsroom producer. Except the game isn't parodying propagandist right wing media narratives, its parroting them. It strains itself to somehow twist taxing the rich and funding public arts into a maniacal plot by social democrats, and that these basic center-left policies are also for some reason inherently bundled up with authoritarianism. Eventually I just found the games propagandist narrative too annoying and boring to put up with and continue playing, even though there were moments of controlling the camera system that were genuinely fun. It's a shame they created a cool concept only to trip over their own ignorance with the narrative.

I like the game so far but I keep having to restart entire days because an entire half of the console screens completely freeze. I know Reinstalling the game with the different file format MIGHT fix it but with how big this game is it takes an entire day on my internet

Fun and hilarious. The decisions you make in the game have major consequences. With multiple endings, you can replay this game multiple times.

''[...] And if you can... and I envy you if you can, have a peaceful night.'' - Jeremy Donaldson, The Heatwave. Flawlessly built, flawlessly written, flawlessly recorded. Everything about this game makes it fun, interesting and personally unique. The amount of care put into every single thing this game has, every single outcome and every single little change in the story and it's branching makes it feel realistic and deep. Even if it at times the jokes and the humor become a little too much to bear in context with the story it becomes unsettling, knowing that the society in the territories is getting more and more deceived by everyone that's at play. 10 out of fucking 10. Played it three times on vr before deciding to buy flat mode and get the dlcs. That's how you know a game is good.

This game is really fun, especially if you love puzzle/time management games with multiple things happening at once. Soothes my ADHD brain.