The Red Strings Club Reviews

The Red Strings Club is ranked in the 83rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
92 / 100
Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club is a vehicle for some of the most engrossing cyberpunk stories I've witnessed in recent memory. I don't know that I've had anywhere near enough of them, just yet.

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8 / 10.0
Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club's great cast of characters and philosophical themes about the meaning of happiness provide plenty of thought-provoking entertainment

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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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Unscored
Jan 22, 2018

If you've any interest in transhumanist philosophy or even ethics in general, then you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. If you don't, then The Red Strings Club should still hit the spot – and you might find you have more to say the next time someone asks you about the nature of happiness.

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Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club is a true cyberpunk classic. Pixel-art visuals and a cyberpunk world make way for fascinating gameplay and a truly compelling, well written story. The game will force you to make tough decisions while questioning your own thoughts about important, current day topics. This is an indie title you won't want to miss.

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9 / 10.0
Jan 22, 2018

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. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-ldb4'); });

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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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8.5 / 10.0
Jan 22, 2018

Deconstructeam's narrative makes The Red Strings Club one of the best reflections in the media about making games, why we create things and why the megacorporations are the evil incarnated.

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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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82%
Jan 22, 2018

Red Strings Club tells a beautiful, universal story about the nature of suffering and the right to feel it in an invitingly atmospheric setting.

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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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Unscored
Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club is a fascinating journey into the problem of free will

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8.5 / 10.0
Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club manages to craft a point-and-click adventure that can, at times, be edge-of-your-seat engrossing. The game’s simplistic presentation gives way to deeper systems at play, creating tension in creative ways. Given that most of the game develops in a static bar location, with only a handful of departures from the setting to explore snippets of a well-realized world, it is a testament to the developer’s skill at keeping the player engaged through an endless barrage of text boxes broken up by entertaining bouts as a charming information broker with a knack for mixology. The questions laid before the player will stick around long after the credits roll, which will sadly happen long before you are ready to part with the game. The Red Strings Club rarely fails to impress, but given the brief runtime those short-lived areas may be felt more than they should. Still, this is a notable success from Deconstructeam.

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Adam Riley
Top Critic
3 / 10
Jan 22, 2018

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.

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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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9 / 10
Jan 22, 2018

The Red Strings Club is a deeply gratifying cyberpunk adventure whose strong writing and exciting scenarios enhance its themes about the manipulation of human emotion.

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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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4.6 / 5.0
Jan 23, 2018

Old school adventuring has grown up!

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Digitally Downloaded
Harvard L.
Top Critic
Jan 23, 2018

Ultimately, The Red Strings Club tries and succeeds to be deeply thought provoking. Whereas other sci-fi games can tell a great story and make the player fear for a hypothetical future, few have made me question my personal definitions on fate, ethics and humanity.

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Andy Kelly
Top Critic
73 / 100
Jan 23, 2018

While it occasionally slips into cyberpunk cliche, and can be a little too earnest for its own good sometimes, The Red Strings Club is a distinctive take on a well-worn genre.

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