Most follow a dream-like logic where scenes can change in an instant, and the game throws in plenty of jump scares when you least expect it. This is where the survival horror aspects are at their most intense, although depending on whether the brain in question is addicted to biological or technological drugs the experiences can also be disturbingly psychedelic. And together they lead you to the people, or ex-people, whose minds you need to ‘observe’. You have an AR filter that scans for electronic devices that you can then hack, and another that tracks biological matter. Observer (PS4) – the not-so distant future? The setting is purposefully drab and repetitive, but it’s the very opposite when you hack into someone’s brain. Almost the entire game takes place in a particularly grotty slum, which manages to make the world of Blade Runner look like a summer paradise. Although in this instance you’re not following a random case but attempting to find out what happened to your missing son. You play the game as a detective who uses a ‘Dream Eater’ device to investigate crimes by accessing the minds of both the living and the dead. The reason there’s so much problem with addiction is that in the game’s timeline the population has only just got over a ‘digital plague’ that killed thousands and a world war that has left the corporations in charge instead of governments. A corporation who labels drug and VR addicts as second-class (well, third actually) citizens and whose police force are authorised to hack into people’s minds. Observer is set in Bloober Team’s home city of Kraków, albeit in a Poland that is now owned by a megacorporation.
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