80
In the cyberpunk world of The Red Strings Club, player agency takes a backseat to a complex story teeming with personality and impactful moments, generating challenge through moral dilemma rather than gameplay.
80
In the cyberpunk world of The Red Strings Club, player agency takes a backseat to a complex story teeming with personality and impactful moments, generating challenge through moral dilemma rather than gameplay.
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Its strength is in the performances and dialogue of its characters, who ask difficult questions about free will and social order.
6
This is a good game with great moments. However it is mostly like a personality test with no answer and nothing to back it up. It asks interesting questions but is not deep enough to have anything interesting to say. Feels a bit unfinished, but it is a good short experience. The gameplay is very annoying
3
Play this as part of the Xbox live subscription. Try it for about 30 minutes and then got turned off very quickly as the gameplay was rather boring.
8
Excelente juego en el que encarnamos a un barman, ambientado en un futuro cercano dentro de un universo ciberpunk, al que se le da tan bien su trabajo que es capaz de generar una serie de sentimientos en sus clientes, lo que hace que se puedan llevar las conversaciones hasta puntos que nos ayudarán a investigar una serie de intrigas y conspiraciones en las que nos vemos **** trata de un juego adulto, tanto en sus conversaciones como en los planteamientos, ya que trata temas morales con unas mecánicas originales como la de la elaboración de cócteles y la fabricación de implantes mentales
The Red Strings Club
Released On:
Jan 22, 2018
Metascore
Generally Favorable
80
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
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Jan 31, 2018
95
The Red Strings Club is a game with refined dialogue and sublimely implemented choices. It sets a new standard for story-driven adventure games that can be seen as literature.
Jan 22, 2018
90
The Red Strings Club is a perfect example of how to create a sublime and intrinsic moral debate within a deep story and a great and well developed world. A masterpiece of graphic adventures, absolutely recommendable for those who are fans of the genre and for those who aren’t.
User score
Generally Favorable
69% Positive
120 Ratings
120 Ratings
18% Mixed
31 Ratings
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13% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
Dec 31, 2022
10
A pretty fun game with some nice twists.Disliked some of the liberal **** they try to shove into your face but still a pretty good game
Nov 24, 2019
10
The game is just beautiful. Your whole story leads you to question true happiness and your mechanics are simply awesome. Without words
Mar 7, 2018
85
The underwhelming mouse-based elements are frustrating because they’re so unnecessary when compared to the interesting stuff going on with the characters and concepts. When it acts more like a visual novel, The Red Strings Club work crackles with lively ideas and compelling characters. Had it focused on that and pared away the irrelevancies, The Red Strings Club would be the amazing experience that it almost was.
Feb 5, 2018
80
The Red Strings Club in an excellent story-driven game that offers a beautiful pixel design and a very interesting narrative gameplay.
Jan 22, 2018
80
Despite some poor controls for minigames, The Red Strings Club conceptually flourishes, with fascinating subject matter, well-written characters, and unique approaches to gameplay. I enjoyed feeling like a puppeteer as I made others do my bidding by exploiting their emotions or deceiving them through phone calls. However, these actions begged a bigger question: Was I just as bad as the mega corporation? Was I playing god? The Red Strings Club had me pondering these moral questions for days.
Jan 26, 2018
74
Red Strings Club is more of a visual novel than a true adventure game, but its roughly four-hour story will give you some topics for your brain to chew on. The conversational gameplay, not to mention the drink mixing minigame, are a lot of fun.
Jan 23, 2018
30
Sadly, The Red Strings Club will fool some into thinking it follows in the footsteps of classics from WadjetEye Games purely because of its aesthetics. Do not be mistaken, though. This is not a patch on any of that company's releases, nor is it affiliated with it at all. Instead, this takes an intriguing style and theme of the world gone mad for technology, mixes in some extremely random love story between the lead duo of hacker and bartender that bears no relevance to the underlying tale, adds in a heavy dose of some of the most painful attempts at puzzles, and then perfectly tops it all off with an overly wordy script filled with too much padding.
Jul 4, 2019
10
Esse jogo é uma obra de arte, que fazem você pensar, ele aborda questões politicas, filosóficas e sociais, o que pode ser sensível para algumas pessoas
Jun 24, 2021
7
It's a nice game but I would like to see the disclaimer most of the characters are LGBT)) Pros.: - Nice story related to dystopian cyberpunk, the problems of the society and the penetration of the NET, implants, etc. - Music. - Bartending. Speaking as a fellow bartender. Cons.: - Underdevelopment of several characters. They are just dropped at some point. - The game feels underdeveloped or cut. It reminds me of a feeling when you wanna make a movie but during editing desperately cut content to hit the deadline. It's a great indie project though with its unique style.
Sep 19, 2020
7
A nice experience, quite short but intense. A very enjoyable game, with inspired pixel art and beautiful atmospheric music. Well-painted cyberpunk world, great storyline, brilliant dialogues and sometimes a bit tedious but still contextual minigames. Recommended, although a little too dialogues focused.
Sep 26, 2020
4
this made me wonder if it's just normal for the spanish elite and corporations to CURSE so much in their offices while talking on the phone. rude.
Mar 23, 2025
3
Play this as part of the Xbox live subscription. Try it for about 30 minutes and then got turned off very quickly as the gameplay was rather boring.
SummaryThe Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date:Jan 22, 2018
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