The Red Strings Club
"The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy."
The Red Strings Club is an adventure developed by Deconstructeam, released 22 January 2018 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.99 at Gamesplanet. The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What The Red Strings Club is
The Red Strings Club is an adventure game developed by Deconstructeam and released in 2018. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"The professed altruistic corporation Supercontinent Ltd is on the verge of releasing Social Psyche Welfare: a system that will eliminate depression, anger and fear from society. However, the bartender of a clandestine club and a freelance hacker don't regard this evolution as an improvement but as brainwashing. Alongside unwitting company employees and a rogue empathy android, the duo will pull all the strings they can to bring down this scheme."
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Red Strings Club holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 91 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.60 per hour of the main story, or $0.37 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium D 915 (2800 MHz), AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2600 MHz) or equivalent, 1 GB RAM and GeForce 7600GS (256 MB) or Radeon HD 2600 PRO (256 MB). 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 $2.99 at Gamesplanet, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Red Strings Club launched on 22 January 2018, within three weeks of Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus and Shadow of the Colossus (2018). All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Red Strings Club yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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