Review - The Red Strings Club
How much damage can one bar manage to do? With a bit of magical liquor, you would be surprised. The Red Strings Club is a dialogue focused game that was developed by Deconstructeam and produced by the well known Devolver Digital. It puts the player in control of a few characters in a cyberpunk future of mega corporations, cyborgs, and transhumanism. The game succeeds at making a narrative experience that, I would say, succeeds at using the gaming medium to reveal their themes. The gameplay is divided up into the player controlling one of three characters: a bartender, a robot, and a grandiose activist. The brunt of the game is comprised of reading and responding to dialogue trees. What separates The Red Strings Club’s dialogue trees from other games is the heavy emphasis on the player interpreting what is being said and, based upon that, choosing an apt response. These dialogue trees are not a matter of just clicking down every possible path. Most of the time the player only g