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Who Is Mike - A Visual Novel

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Linux • 2015

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Quick resume

You wake up with an aching head and the world out of focus. In front of you is a man accusing you of being “fake”. He looks exactly like you, down to the last scar and pimple, has the same memories, the same voice and the same personality. But who is lying and who is telling the truth? Who is fake and who is real?

Global score

91/100

Genres

Casual, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Visual Novel

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    Pros

    • Intriguing and suspenseful story with multiple endings
    • High-quality art and atmospheric music
    • Free to play
    • Replayability encouraged by branching choices
    • Short and accessible for newcomers to visual novels

    Cons

    • Very short gameplay length
    • Some endings feel inconsistent or confusing
    • Limited interactivity beyond choice selection
    • No achievements or social features
    • Repetitive dialogue when replaying

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Creativity

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fellowship

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership
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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Value. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

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    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
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    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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