Cyber Noir Stories: The Trunk Steam Charts & Stats

Let's start with the most important part: I've just finished the game and I feel satisfyingly entertained. I was looking for a quick dose of cyberpunk and point & click adventure and I certainly got my money's worth. Everything else I say should be viewed against that background, it's minor niggling and only intended to encourage the creator to create more and even better games in the future! [hr][/hr] As a programmer who has dabbled in game-making myself I know first-hand the difficulties of making suitable art and I think the solution of having pre-rendered backgrounds and cel-shaded characters on top works surprisingly well, there's the usual issues with walkable areas and proper z-layering, but nothing I found too annoying. The game is fully voiced and I applaud leaning into the VAs german accents by setting the game in Germany; However a lot of the minor character voices are synthetic (so probably "AI", but maybe one of the older voice synths) and they neither work particularly well, nor do I like seeing too much "AI art" (or something easily mistaken for it). I think the game would've been better served by simply not voicing those characters, plenty of adventures have taken that path before! As for the storyline it's certainly suitably cyberpunk, though the ending is not to my personal taste in the genre. There are a few moments where NPCs are ridiculously dense and some where their personality seems to have gone through a big shift (Though it was telegraphed), including some lampshading of Bond Villain Stupidity only to do it anyway. There were a few moments where the PCs do things I would not have chosen, but I feel those were all well in-character; Yelling at the screen because the character is being reckless is par for the course, I think.