
- 78/100
- Players19 ratings
- 72/100
- Critics4 reviews
More scores
- 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
Where to get it

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
Editions and related releases
- Downloadable content
- Gamedec: Izmael KrostovGamedec: Dafne Bennet
- Built on it
- Gamedec: Definitive Edition
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