Interrogation: Deceived

Assemble Entertainment

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About this game

As a police detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?

AWARDS
+ Best Narrative Design, Montreal Independent Game Awards, 2019
+ Coup de Coeur Panache Digital Games finalist, Montreal Independent Game Awards, 2019
+ Nordic Game Discovery Contest: Final Four Finalist, Nordic Game,
2019
+ Best Game of the Show, Dev.Play, 2018
+ Best Visuals finalist, Dev.Play, 2018
+ Indie Prize finalist, Casual Connect London, 2018
+ Very Big Indie Pitch nominee, Pocket Gamer Connect London, 2017
+ Special Talent Award Contest nominee, Ludicious, 2017

FEATURES
+ Explore deep and increasingly difficult conversational puzzles to get to the bottom of a terrifying conspiracy
+ Show your management skills balancing your cases, team, budget and the police force’s relationship with the public
+ Reach one of multiple world-defining endings - where will your choices lead you?
+ Meet over 35 complex and realistic characters
+ Immerse yourself in the expressive noir art based on real actor footage and atmospheric music

Can you save the city from the terrorist group The Liberation Front's plot? Download Interrogation: Deceived now and find out!

GAMEPLAY
In the pursuit of terrorist organization The Liberation Front, you have to coordinate your team to gather information, manage your limited budget and deal with the press hot on your heels for a good story. But that is only half of it:
Your main task as lead investigator is interrogating suspects. Understanding their backgrounds, and thus their motivations, is key in choosing whether intimidation, guile or empathy is the right approach. There is no universal solution – but the clock is ticking relentlessly.
As you’re closing in on the true culprits and your suspects are getting more resistant, the interrogations become increasingly difficult. Uncover the truth through complex conversations, psychological manipulation and other techniques.

The Liberation Front will not be easily dismantled.

THE GAME'S GOAL
Interrogation: Deceived is a narratively immersive convo-puzzle game that challenges common preconceptions about highly relevant contemporary subjects like terrorism, police brutality and the power imbalances between citizens, the state and large corporations. The game follows in the footsteps of games like "This War of Mine", "Papers Please", "This is the Police" and "Orwell" in that it tries to raise important moral, ideological and practical questions in the minds of the players.

Ratings and reviews

The game itself is mostly wonderful (albeit somewhat repetitive) but very short and somewhat anticlimactic, as it ends abruptly, while having quite a bit of depth. It seems stumped. If it was longer and had even an endless mode after, and a few more features, it would have been five stars.

Unique mix of different genres. It is part visual novel, part choose your own adventure, part puzzle game, part management and above all a temporary tale about ethics. I'll still have to see it through to the end but I was very positively surprised how this game wraps all those different topics into one coherent interactive story.

I liked the game but the whole black and white atmosphere wasn't really appealing. It could be sophisticated sometimes specially with the order of the questions you should've asked. You could add more items such as Giving access to the sites for finding info or even on social media. If we could play as team with other people and we had clues and pictures as well, it could be so much more fascinating. And instead of getting the rest of the game, you could just add some premium choice

What's new

Fixes off-center rendering on wide-screen devices.