The Westport Independent
"The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator about the last weeks on an independent newspaper which is to be dismantled according to a new government bill. You play an editor in charge of choosing what…
The Westport Independent is an indie developed by Double Zero One Zero, released 21 January 2016 on Android, iOS, Linux and Mac. It is free to play.
What The Westport Independent is
The Westport Independent is an indie game developed by Double Zero One Zero and released in 2016. It was published by Coffee Stain Studios. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator about the last weeks on an independent newspaper which is to be dismantled according to a new government bill. You play an editor in charge of choosing what will be printed in the paper, making sure that the content is nice and proper according to the government guidelines. With rebellions against the government rising slowly amongst the public, whose truth will you print?"
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Westport Independent holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 GB RAM and Open GL 2.0. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
The Westport Independent launched on 21 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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