Ludography
78/100
Players19 ratings
72/100
Critics4 reviews
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Metacritic38 critic reviews
72/100
Metacritic usersuser score
66/100
GameFAQsJust Right
3.79/5
Player reviews
78% positive1,127 reviews
Steam Deck
Verified
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$27.61

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2021 · Anshar Studios · Adventure · Indie

Gamedec

Timed Nintendo exclusive

Gamedec is an adaptive cyberpunk RPG. As a private detective, it’s your job to solve crimes inside virtual worlds. What decisions will you make in a world where child slavery is a F2P game, where murder over a game-clan dispute is an every-day reality? Who will you become in the XXII century?

Released
16 September 2021
Platforms
Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 5Windows
Genres
AdventureIndiePoint-and-click adventurePuzzleRole-playing
Developers
Anshar Studios
Publishers
Anshar Studios
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Science fictionMystery
Engine
Unreal Engine 4
Country
Poland
Age ratings
ESRB MGRAC 19+PEGI 16
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish (Spain), Turkish
Time to beat
11hmain story21hwith extras20hcompletionist

About

Gamedec is a point-and-click adventure role-playing video game developed by Anshar Studios and published by Anshar Publishing. It was released for Windows on September 16, 2021, followed by Nintendo Switch on July 1, 2022 and PlayStation 5 on February 23, 2023. The game takes place in Warsaw and features a cyberpunk universe and themes of film noir, tech noir, and transhumanism. The player controls a "game detective" or "gamedec" and participate in solving mysteries related to virtual-reality games, collecting clues and making deductions in order to drive the story forward.

›Story

Welcome to Warsaw City in the XXII century, where "real" is a relative term and "life" and "death" have many meanings. Virtual worlds give rise to real problems: lust, sloth, envy, and pride. That’s why the residents of these virtual game-worlds need specialists – Gamedecs who discover and exploit cheats hidden in the realities of their clients. Whether it’s the Wild West or the jungle of a prehistoric entertainment park, these and many other worlds confront our human nature. Which, despite many changes, has remained all too familiar…

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Gameplay

Gamedec features a protagonist with customizable appearance and background. The player may choose from a variety of starting personalities which influence their beginning number of points in each of the game's four personality categories. These points, earnable through dialogue choices, may be spent on skill tree nodes which will enable new dialogue options when interacting with the game's characters and various scripted events. Dialogue choices are permanent, as are "deductions", which are a core element of the game's progression system – players are presented with irreversible choices based on optional evidence, where the number of choices is fixed for each deduction, but the choices' availability is determined by progression. In this system it is possible for a player to select an answer without having examined the entire field of clues or unlocking every answer available, yet the story will continue regardless.

Story

The game is based on a collection of short stories by Polish science-fiction author Marcin Przybyłek, which portray the adventures of a "gamedec"—short for "game detective"—a private detective tasked with solving mysteries related to a variety of full sensory immersive virtual reality games.

Reception

Gamedec received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. PC Gamer described it as "A cybersleuth RPG that wastes its great premise.", citing bugs and "inconsistencies" as part of the criticism, and Rock Paper Shotgun noted that the translation and in-universe terminology can make the dialogue difficult to process at times. Tom's Guide called it "… a fun and engaging decision-driven RPG", hailing its positive aspects as being "decisions that matter", "beautiful art design" and "plenty of replayability".

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows16 September 2021Worldwide
Nintendo Switch1 July 2022Worldwide
PlayStation 524 February 2023Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Downloadable content
Gamedec: Izmael KrostovGamedec: Dafne Bennet
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Gamedec: Definitive Edition

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