You know the fantasy already.
An FBI agent calls their office to have someone run a check on a piece of information.
It might be a person’s name, a car licence plate, or some surveillance footage.
But not any more.
Which, I know, sounds unglamorous.
You’re the one joining the dots.
And right from the off, developer Bureau 81 breathes maximum life and energy into it.
Case in point: you’re thrown right into the thick of things from the moment the demo begins.
It’s menacing and unsettling.
You’re being interrogated, butdoyou know who you are?
Do you know about[REDACTED]?
It’s one thing after another in quick succession.
There’s never any time to get bored and I love that.
Things are always moving, even if you’re only looking at a computer screen.
There’s also a fantastic attention to detail in the tools you use.
I yelped in delight when the login-password box automatically typed the correct letters when I touched my keyboard.
What a great idea!
It’s the stuff of my true crime dreams.
It’s zippy, it makes you feel smug when you find the answers.
It’s brilliantly put together and it thrums with a sense of vitality these games often lack.
