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The Red Strings Club

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch, Mac, Linux • 2018

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Quick resume

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Global score

94/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel, Simulator, Puzzle

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    Pros

    • Deep, thought-provoking narrative
    • Unique bartending and pottery gameplay
    • Strong cyberpunk atmosphere and soundtrack
    • Emotional and philosophical engagement
    • Well-written, diverse characters

    Cons

    • Short game length
    • Some clunky or repetitive minigames
    • Fixed ending limits impact of choices
    • Lack of replay convenience features
    • Minor controversial content handling

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Story

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Intimacy, Survival, Violence, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival, Cooperation.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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