The game touches on some really deep cyberpunk and sci-fi themes such as: AI bodies with the consciousness of other people ; industrial / capitalist exploitation of workers ; indentured servitude. This is a strong point and some of the stories are really touching and hit hard.

However the game fails at what it is supposed to be - a game. This is in fact a Visual Novel with very light gaming elements in terms of dice and resource management. Very close to a digital version of a table top. A game is divided into cycles, normally when you use all your dices on different actions you can end the cycle and advance various event counters (as you advance there is more of them), the next cycle your dices will reset and you will be able to use them again. As you progress you also get more ways to spend you action dices e.g. new people you meet, new events pop-up, etc. However that doesn't take from the fact that in the end you are reading a lot of text and then deciding where do you use your dices. The whole cycle takes a few minutes at most, then it's a repeat.

The whole game at a leisure pace is less than 4-5 hours, way faster if you already played one path and are rushing to replay the other ones, which devolves into you knowing where to go and which events to advance, and which ones to ignore completely. Yes, the game encourages multiple playthroughs with this approach but at the end of the day the system never develops from selecting the events, applying the dice rolls and advancing the counters.

Might work for some, didn't work for me.

This is like a visual novel+. There is loads of reading, but also branching storylines, multiple endings, resource management and a survival element, and dice placement. You have quite a lot of agency here.

The story is, somewhat ironically, deeply human. The characters are ok and the plot points are pretty good. It reads like maybe a 3.5-4 star book.

It's hard not to recommend, but if you don't like reading, avoid it. If you're really not a fan of sci-fi, avoid it. For everyone else, give it a go.

I had to tear myself away from playing this game earlier today. Its story is compelling and the gameplay is smooth. I love the dice system that makes you play strategically and carefully consider your actions.