Spinnortality

Spinnortality’s price tag ($9.99 on Steam, $8.99 on itch.io) wisely reflects its relative simplicity, as the game focuses on unique and highly specific subject matter. There’s a fair amount of nuance and complexity the further you delve, with just enough replayability to match, exponentially so for big cyberpunk fans. What Spinnortality lacks in a broader depth, it makes up for in exploring (or drilling down) its themes and ideologies.

It’s a little weird that everything was left in my hands, rendered utterly ineffectual by democratic reform. What point did that make? To be fair, I’m the one that got the world there by choosing “ignore climate change” at literally every opportunity. I guess it wasn’t such a lawful good playthrough, after all. Okay, no more Mr. Nice Guy. It’s time to roll up my sleeves, get my hands dirty, and throw a few token dollars at climate change long enough to attain an imperial victory.

Multiple endings are possible, therefore replay value is high. We have lost the game two times (once we got fired by the board, then we died of old age) before we successfully dominated the world with our unethical products, and even turned the moon into a giant billboard. Spinnortality makes it feel good to be bad.