It’s not necessarily a bad thing, I just don’t think it’s correct to say there are no politics in this game. There is quite a lot of commentary on his policies and characters regularly state their dislike for him, plus there’s an election around the corner. The main storyline is centred around a corrupt mayor who will do anything for control and power over his people. The dev has pushed back on this opinion saying Encodya doesn’t have politics, but I would disagree. I enjoyed the story in Encodya though some don’t like the political aspects of it. The soundtrack brings a fantastic ambience to the game with a cyberpunk feel and sombre tone. Tina and SAM-53 find a huge ship in a fieldĮncodya has full voice acting by awesome voice actors Lizzie Freeman and Richard Epcar as Tina and SAM-53. The backgrounds and characters are detailed and a little melancholy, which is fitting for the drab dystopian world of Neo Berlin. It is pretty much the entire reason I played the demo and wanted to experience the rest of the game. This brings additional complexity to the game when solving puzzles. Some robots will only talk to SAM, and some humans will only talk to Tina. ![]() One big part of Encodya is that you can play as both Tina and SAM-53. This never seemed to work reliably for me. The easy difficulty enabled clues from SAM and highlighting of interactive items with the space bar. Two difficulty settings attempt to alleviate this issue, but I found myself having problems finding items even on the easy setting. The other issue with this is some of the items were very difficult to see, especially if the hulking SAM-53 was standing on them. I occasionally found myself combining an item with every other item out of sheer desperation. You can also combine items from your inventory and, in true point and click style, some of these combinations will induce groans and eye-rolls. Search for items and clues and try to work out what they all mean. GameplayĮncodya is your classic point and click. Together, along with the helpful (and not so helpful) people and robots of Neo Berlin, they need to uncover the code and solve the mystery. The game opens to Tina and SAM needing to find some basic supplies like food and shelter, but then they discover that SAM has a hidden piece of code and some people are eager to get their hands on it. This is lucky for Tina, as Neo Berlin’s world is rough and not a good place for a child alone. ![]() All children are assigned a nanny bot at birth with the year as their model. If like us you complete it, you’ll likely want more once beaten.Set in 2062, Encodya introduces us to Tina and Sam, a homeless child and her nanny robot, SAM-53. In the mean time, sign up for the demo and give it a whirl. Hopefully we’ll have more news on that in due course. The demo hints at a lot of other varied locations as well which is good.Įncodya looks very promising indeed, but so far no word on the Kickstarter campaign aside from some quirky remarks in the demo. It quite cool having a random punk NPC pass-by during a conversation. So far at least 8 or more NPCs have voices.Īudio aside, probably the biggest draw here are the visuals with fantastic artwork and neat animations. This is a breath of fresh air and hopefully extends into the full game. What is very neat so far is the fact each character has a voice and doesn’t rely on players reading tons of text. Hopefully the game continues this theme making for an extra layer to the puzzle aspects. Tina also cannot reach into a manhole with a makeshift fishing hook, but Sam can. Tina cannot reach a simple lantern held up high, but Sam can. One assumes that Sam will have different skills to Tina, in fact there are two further instances in the demo which highlight this. Tina and Sam can share inventories and pass items between one another as well. It’s small touches like this which add to the game’s charm. Switch to Sam and the translated language is comprehensible. For example, if Tina talks to a robot at the bus terminal she doesn’t understand the robot’s language. Interestingly players can swap between the two at will which results in different outcomes when interacting with the environment. You play as two characters, a young girl cum street urchin called Tina and her trusty robot SAM-53. Take a look at our Encodya Gameplay 4K video to get a taste of what to expect. We tried the demo and can’t wait to play the rest of the game if successfully crowd-funded. ![]() Developer, Chaosmonger Studios presents Encodya, a cyberpunk themed point and click adventure game on PC.
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