The Red Strings Club Reviews

The Red Strings Club is ranked in the 83rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
8 / 10.0
Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club comes full circle. It ends almost exactly where it begins. Brandeis is still falling. He's still going to collide with the ground. His fate's sealed. But that doesn't really matter. In The Red Strings Club, it's how you arrive at a moment that stands out.

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8 / 10.0
Mar 25, 2019

Sit down, fix yourself a stiff drink, and get ready to open up. The Red Strings Club is an establishment worth visiting.

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8 / 10
Jan 30, 2018

A cyberpunk exploration of humanity, manipulation and getting tanked, The Red Strings club is lovely and melancholy and well worth a look.

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Jan 23, 2018

A short but thought-provoking story with interesting moral choices to make and enough player engagement to keep you involved.

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8 / 10
Feb 5, 2018

The Red Strings Club in an excellent story-driven game that offers a beautiful pixel design and a very interesting narrative gameplay.

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8 / 10
Mar 15, 2019

The Red Strings Club tells a brilliant cyberpunk tale that's full of big ideas and tough moral questions. Its gameplay sections are a little too flimsy and repetitive to keep pace, but you'll want to play through this memorable adventure nonetheless.

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4 / 5.0
Jan 22, 2018

Thanks to an incredible and thought-provoking story, a cast of well-rounded characters, and simple yet highly effective gameplay, The Red Strings Club easily kicks off 2018 on the right foot when it comes to adventure games.

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GameSpace
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club is a fascinating exploration of humanity, emotion, ethics, and our own preconceptions of evil. It tackles some huge topics, and while it does not manage to meet all of it’s potential it is worth playing just to visit The Red Strings Club, pull up a chair, and try something different.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 2, 2018

The Red Strings Club uses every cybyerpunk trope—implants, sentient androids, all-powerful corporations—in ways that are meaningful.

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8 / 10
Feb 4, 2018

The Red Strings Club is a story-driven, pixel-art style point & click adventure that makes you think, think and think; about a very possible future that may just be around the corner for us, and about the current troubles that human race is facing.

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80%
Feb 2, 2018

Thought-provoking and heart-warming, The Red Strings Club may be brief but it's good to the last drop. And, like the drinks that Donovan serves, it'll have you coming back for more.

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Entertainment Buddha
Taylor Thompson
80 / 100
Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club is fantastic! The beautiful animations along with the great dialogue and charming music makes this cyberpunk narrative a game for all gamers (who are old enough)!

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4 / 5
Jan 22, 2018

Great music, pixel-style art, a cyberpunk aesthetic, and the mellow feeling of shooting the shit at the bar. What’s not to love?

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8 / 10
Feb 16, 2018

The Red Strings Club poses important questions to think and reflect on in an effective, harrowing way.

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Jul 13, 2018

The Red Strings Club might not be **the** cyberpunk game you’re waiting for, but it’s well-worth your time. Like any good cyberpunk story, it poses tough questions about our potential future and the extent to which we adapt our own bodies and minds at the cost of corporate control. Like any really good cyberpunk story, you shouldn’t expect to get all the answers.

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8 / 10
Mar 19, 2019

GREAT - The Red Strings Club is a great way to spend a lazy Sunday curled up in bed. The story is engaging and made all the better by its well-written cast of rogues. It’ll definitely leave you thinking long after you’re finished.

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8 / 10
Mar 27, 2019

The most frustrating part of the game is the ‘game’ itself, and when absolutely every other aspect of The Red Strings Club is so strong, it’s really frustrating. Thankfully, the terrific characters, the strong narrative, the gorgeous visuals and the moral questions the game poses at you tip the game into the ‘must-play’ review score. The brilliant story drags you in and doesn’t let go.

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7.8 / 10.0
Jan 22, 2018

A stylish if slightly familiar slice of high concept dystopian sci-fi

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77 / 100
Jan 23, 2018

The Red Strings Club is a clever (and occasionally quite confronting) narrative experience that blends a compelling cocktail of ethical quandaries and social engineering, with a fresh slice of low-stress minigames. Served chilled.

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7.7 / 10.0
Mar 16, 2019

It’s so rewarding to have dialogue options that so clearly generate results.

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