Hidden Agenda Reviews
As a game for chilling out on the sofa with a handful of friends or the family, Hidden Agenda is pretty cool. Yet there's a lot about the mechanics, the story, the situations and the characters that seems wilfully, crazily dumb. For £20 for a few hours of fun it's well worth a try, but this feels like an interesting concept that needs some work before it all comes good.
If you love choose-your-own-adventure games, Hidden Agenda is compelling enough to make for an evening's entertainment, especially given its price – but it feels more a glimpse of what could be enabled by mobile-connected games in the future, than a showcase of them at the moment.
Hidden Agenda is a nice thriller to play, thats lacks some fine tuning in terms of Story and mechanics.
Review in German | Read full review
Hidden Agenda is worth a purchase if you like Until Dawn, or if you're a fan of insanely fun couch co-op experiences. PlayLink's incorporation of smartphones may or may not catch on for PlayStation, but it works well for Hidden Agenda and becomes one of the game's strengths.
In the end, I wish Hidden Agenda was more of a traditional PS4 game rather than a PlayLink gimmick. Still, with a solid (yet slightly predictable storyline; at least, the one I played through), it's well worth a go. Supermassive is quickly becoming my favourite Sony developer.
Hidden Agenda proves that PlayLink works not only with funny party games, but also with more mature, dark stories that can be controlled even by very casual gamers.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Hidden Agenda is a fun co-op or competitive title with a good production values and a gripping story. The PlayLink system can cause issues and an unforgiving save system means that you may have to start over, but this is a well-made game that's extensively replayable and a killer with friends.
Hidden Agenda is a game built to be played with friends, but ultimately I found the most fun in single player. It is also a game made to be finished in one sitting, but I grew to like it more after two playthroughs.
Playlink doesn't get enough credit.
Supermassive Games brings players another unique adventure in the multiplayer, action-adventure, thriller Hidden Agenda.
Hidden Agenda is a funny - but very short - cinematic adventure game with a lot of QTE and social features, available only for PlayLink users.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Behold, the choice-driven narrative serial killer crime drama party game genre is born
Playing Hidden Agenda is like watching a movie with lots of plot holes and technical problems but just because you're watching it with your friends, you ignore its issues, trying actually to enjoy it. At the end of the day, Hidden Agenda is a half-baked, troubled game which only is enjoyable because of Playlink.
Review in Persian | Read full review
A novel idea executed competently, but a predictable and short plot and lack of features to entice those playing alone and with one friend bring the experience down.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Hidden Agenda isn't very deep, but it's a fun and creative game that you're going to want to share with all of your friends. It's an interesting showcase of making a typical adventure title into a party experience that takes advantage of the PlayStation's PlayLink platform.
Games like Hidden Agenda are what we need to see more of. The game itself isn't perfect, but it is a perfect example of games that try new ways to tell a story. Full credit to Sony for trying something new with the mobile phone linking system.
This might keep your friends entertained, but they might want something a bit shorter that takes less concentration to enjoy
Hidden Agenda is a gripping thriller with enormously high replay value.
Review in German | Read full review
It is a real interactive film that owes its narration to the choices we make, following our reasoning and our feelings. Unlike other titles in Hidden Agenda the choices heavily affect the game mechanics, turning the story into something always different than previously played.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Hidden Agenda is a great game to play both on your own and as part of a party. It's not very long, clocking in at around 90 minutes, but it's a decent enough length to play through in one sitting without losing interest. Once you know the plot and the killer there is still motivation for replaying the game as there are multiple hidden branches which you can't view within one playthrough, this will keep you coming back to experiment to see what you can uncover.