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FACEMINER is a dystopian management sim where you’ll take great pleasure in harvesting mugshots for moneyWelcome to the retro-future
Welcome to the retro-future
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Wristworks Ltd
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Wristworks Ltd
It’s absorbing work, though. Your inbox rings out often with a slightly soothing, slightly unsettling robotic voice reading you new messages. Click lots of faces and you’ll move up the ranks within the company, with complimentary inbox messages telling you so. This means you’ll unlock new software and hardware and other things to make the mining process easier. A new tool that auto-clicks on faces for you. Solar panels to increase the amount of power you’re generating. Memory to compensate for the accuracy boost you’ve given your auto-clicker. All of it is easy to understand and most importantly, easy to downgrade or upgrade when you weigh up the fluctuating costs of your operation. Don’t go bankrupt, for god’s sake.
Sometimes a message in your inbox will ding you out of those operational wins. “Subject: Going insane with boredom”, it might read. “Click. click. click. No breaks, low pay, and no end in sight. I should have gone for the job at the paint factory”.
Having played the demo for a short while, I think it’s an excellent mixture of idler and management sim where your inbox is awash with corporate wins that push AI’s power, and human losses that dispel its charm.
The game’s due out sometime later this year and you can find the demo over onSteam.
