I loved the concept and theme of Silicon Dreams. It is as close to Blade Runner in video game form as you will find. It wasn’t without issues though. My problems with the game are either the result of poor mechanics; they were on purpose; or I am just bad at the game. My main issue with the game were it’s rating system of your interrogations. I didn’t feel they were very fair. It seemedI loved the concept and theme of Silicon Dreams. It is as close to Blade Runner in video game form as you will find. It wasn’t without issues though. My problems with the game are either the result of poor mechanics; they were on purpose; or I am just bad at the game. My main issue with the game were it’s rating system of your interrogations. I didn’t feel they were very fair. It seemed that pretty much every interrogation I did was not handled to their satisfaction. The thing is I was actually trying to do what they wanted, I wasn’t trying to be some rebel and free all of the androids. I ended up being decommissioned as a deviant and many of the dialogue responses I got to use at that point acted as if I was part of some underground movement trying to overthrow the company. I guess I just sucked at the job but there was no option for that story arc. Putting this aside I did enjoy the game. There is a lot of different questions you can ask and the game does a good job of letting you know what kind of response you are getting as well as things you can try to get the responses you need. The graphics are decent all around. I didn’t feel that there were any parts of them that either wowed me or made me cringe in horror. The music was well done. The script was very good and being that there was no voice acting this was important.
I played Silicon Dreams on Linux. It never crashed on me and, outside of a slight v-sync issue, I didn’t notice any bugs or spelling mistakes. There was a toggle for v-sync; three options for AA and a resolution selector. Alt-tab didn’t work. You can save the game on exit but there is only one save slot. The v-sync was also a bit broken. During interrogations it worked just fine but outside of it either in your room or in the debrief it didn’t work and the FPS was much higher. Performance was great although there were times I was surprised at the high usage of CPU and GPU as well as thinking the frame rate should have been higher based on the graphical quality. That being said there was no lag and the frame rate was always well above 60.
Game Engine: Unity
Graphics API: OpenGL
Game Version Played: 11.10.2021
Disk Space Used: 3.7 GB
Game Settings: V-sync on; 8x AA; 1920x1080
GPU Usage: 0-100 %
VRAM Usage: 830-1372 MB
CPU Usage: 17-65 %
RAM Usage: 3.4-4.0 GB
Frame Rate: 71-144 FPS
Even though I may have been bad at the game I still had fun which is the key here. If the whole point was that it wasn’t possible to please the company then I still say bravo. I recommend this game to anybody who enjoys detective style games or just visual novel games as that’s what this game is at it’s core. I paid $19.80 CAD and finished Silicon Dreams in 1 hour and 51 minutes. I’m not sure if I reached the end of the game naturally or my bad performance sped it up but overall the game didn’t feel rushed and didn’t drag. I would try the demo first to make sure it is what you like.
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