It’s 2065, in a corporate-controlled dystopian future where the lines between the real and the artificial have blurred to almost nothing, an interrogation-model android becomes caught between big tech and a brewing revolution. Players can intimidate, manipulate, betray or befriend; they can aid the insurgents or bring about their downfall. They can adhere to their strict programming - or succumb to deviant emotion.
Interrogate: Investigate humans and androids in a corporate-controlled dystopian future where the lines between the real and the artificial have blurred to almost nothing. Research your subjects, choose your questions carefully, and probe for the truth, however dreadful it may be.
Manipulate: Monitor interviewees’ emotions in real time – joy, sadness, anger, disgust, shock, and fear. Use this data to your advantage, intimidating, cajoling, or even befriending your subjects in order to to uncover more information.
Negotiate: Choose a side in the midst of a brewing conflict: lie to your superiors and spare deviant androids, or condemn them to secure your own survival within the corporation. There are no easy answers. Silicon Dreams has multiple endings depending on the choices you make. Each android could live or die by your words.
Make the final call: release, or destroy?
Silicon Dreams is a Papers, Please style bureaucratic thriller with a Blade Running soul.
Key Features:
- Speak, or forever hold your peace: Carefully control the flow of information. Decide what to reveal, and when, and to whom.
- Facts vs feelings: Monitor interviewees’ emotions in real-time - joy, sadness, anger, disgust, shock, and fear. Use this data to plan a strategy & draw conclusions.
- Live and let die: Choose to spare deviant androids, or condemn them and secure your own survival within the corporation.
- Branching paths: Move through a vast web of dialogue options and experience multiple endings depending on the path you choose.
Silicon Dreams is coming to PC (Steam) on April 20, 2021.
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