Analogue: A Hate Story
A dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Two pursuable characters. Five endings. Welcome to the future.
Analogue: A Hate Story is an adventure developed by Love Conquers All Games, released 1 February 2012 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.49 at Steam.
What Analogue: A Hate Story is
Analogue: A Hate Story is an adventure game developed by Love Conquers All Games and released in 2012. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Analogue: A Hate Story is a visual novel created by independent designer and visual novelist Christine Love. It was created with the Ren'Py engine, and was first released for download on the author's website in February 2012. A sequel set centuries after Love's earlier work, Digital: A Love Story (2010), Analogue revolves around an unnamed investigator, who is tasked with discovering the reason for an interstellar ship's disappearance once it reappears after 600 years. The game's themes focus similarly around human/computer interaction, interpersonal relationships, and LGBT issues; but focus primarily on "transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness and cosplay."
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 14 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Analogue: A Hate Story holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.66 GHz, 1 GB of RAM and DirectX compatible card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.49 at Steam, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Analogue: A Hate Story launched on 1 February 2012, within three weeks of Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, The Darkness II and Alan Wake's American Nightmare. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, The Darkness II, Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Analogue: A Hate Story yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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