- Publisher: Coffee Stain Studios
- Release Date: Jan 21, 2016
- Also On: iPhone/iPad

- Summary:
- Developer: Double Zero One Zero
- Genre(s): Strategy, Management, Business / Tycoon
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 15
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Mixed: 11 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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Apr 3, 2016A deceptively simple game, The Westport Independent is enjoyable, interesting, unique, and utterly immersive. I was thoroughly captivated playing it and I look forward to playing it again.
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Games Master UKMar 19, 2016The experience is a short one. [March 2016, p.81]
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Jan 22, 2016The game is worth playing and represents a new sign that video games have the ability to deal with serious matters, including censorship and the way even small tweaks can allow the news to shift our perception of reality and influence our actions.
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Feb 2, 2016It covers a fresh theme and delivers an interesting art design, but one run lasts merely 30 minutes. And the kind of similar “Papers, Please” shows more depth as well as emotional connection.
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Jan 28, 2016The game does deliver scenes between levels that color some of your writers’ inner lives, but they are too minor to establish much empathy for, say, a writer disappearing by the regime’s hand in the post-game wrap up.
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Feb 7, 2016Unless you’re interested in the subject matter — and, really, I was — you’d be better off spending your money elsewhere.
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LEVEL (Czech Republic)Mar 22, 2016Great idea wasted by a sterile execution, which removes the most important elements of the genre – fear, uncertainty and never-ending moral issues. [Issue # 261]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 1 out of 3
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