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-esque funhouse of a tech-filled convenience store.
Flat Eye
Monkey Moon · Nov 14, 2022
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Flat Eye is a resource management sim with an emphasis on story and narrative choices. Work your dream job at the world’s number one gas station and retail destination. Explore stories linked to your returning customers and their interaction with emerging technologies. Flat Eye - We're watching.
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- 9.0Despite some of the extremes the game goes to, a lot of the big-picture stuff feels close to home. In the eyes of a mega-rich CEO, we’re all the same, and we’re all disposable. Instead of feeling like there was a lesson at every turn, Flat Eye portrays multiple sides of the same dystopian dice.
- 7.0There's an amusing, darkly funny corporate business simulator in here, despite what it lacks in real narrative intrigue. The daily grind will just, inevitably, get you down.
- 8.0Flat 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.
- Flat Eye’s deliberately sterile aesthetic is striking, and invokes a sense that the people roaming around your store really are just faceless consumers. It’s not without its ideas or occasional charms, but in trying so blatantly to be challenging and provocative, the developers may have overplayed their hand. It’s at its best when it’s being a store management sim, but often stumbles over its clumsy attempts at social commentary.
- 8.0While 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.
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