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Flat Eye
Released On: Nov 14, 2022
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
74
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
With a subtle art style and in-depth narrative, Flat Eye manages to tell a dystopian story without feeling preachy. While it is a management sim, you won’t find this game as mechanically full or complicated as others in the genre.
An incredible look into the advancements in technology and the various perils the future can hold, Flat Eye is a narrative sim with terrific dialogue and individual stories that provide sharp satire and even terrific comedy courtesy of your AI, all while providing a fun challenge as you try and manage this Black Mirror-style showcase of a tech-filled convenience store. It’s a sweet and savvy twist on simulation games that’s worth checking out, especially if it gets more people to watch Clue.
Holding up a fun house mirror to the worrying trends in real world technological, labour and societal practices, Flat Eye is a game with a message. By combining a resource management game with Black Mirror-esque storylines, it manages to stay both entertaining and stimulating through its 10 hour length. While it’s in need of a bit of TLC right now due to some bugs, Flat Eye is a patch away from being one of the most unique gaming curios of 2022.
Flat Eye is an entertaining management simulator that is easy to play and has a high skill ceiling. But it’s also a highly relevant game making a statement about the logical endpoint of capitalism and the everyday exploitation of the vulnerable as the world itself dies around those who can have the power to fix it but choose not to. If this game ever stops being relevant, we’ll be in a much better place. Aren’t video games cool?
Flat Eye is not without its ideas or charms, but in trying so hard to be provocative, the devs may have overplayed their hand.
While it doesn't fulfil its potential, Flat Eye is an intriguing management sim that's more than the sum of its parts.
One could argue that my boredom was an intended result of Flat Eye‘s ludonarrative theming, but I just don’t buy it and that diegetic UI just wasn’t enough — I’ll be taking my business elsewhere.
Its corpo dystopia may be further along the tech ladder than we are, but I take heart in the fact that Flat Eye's still only set in 2022. If they can course correct away from several world-ending visions of what's to come, perhaps we can too.
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Summary Flat Eye is a perfectly balanced blend of management simulation and narrative-driven gameplay. As the manager of the world's premier gas and technological hub, it's your job to keep your station running smoothly, complete daily objectives tasked by the world's first true AI, and develop new technology to improve (or curse) the future of...
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Nov 14, 2022
Developer:
- Monkey Moon
Publisher: Raw Fury
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