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Topics: Cyberpunk 2077, Free Games, Steam, Indie Games, PC
Cyberpunk 2077 fans may want to check out this new free game that’s just come to Steam.
D1AL-ogue is a brand new free game that hit Steam last week, and should appeal to fans of Cyberpunk 2077 or those who enjoy the cyberpunk genre in general.
It's a part-visual novel, part-repair game where you play as a technician in Chroma City who runs a business repairing androids.
Combining an aesthetic that is described as being between 98-era PC style and Neon Noir, D1AL-ogue’s Chroma City is “a place where the sun never rises, and only the artificial light of 'Neon-Shine' illuminates the streets”.
“You become the manager of a repair clinic tucked away in a corner of the shopping district, welcoming customers who emerge from the dark.
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“They are not ordinary humans, but androids known as Electronic Vital Entities (E.V.E). Your mission is to operate the old-school diagnostic console [D1AL] to fix their broken parts and return them to their daily lives,” reads the blurb on D1AL-ogue.
What follows is a repair mini-game where you have to fix the android’s internal core, which is represented via a circular grid that you must manually rotate and manipulate.
Within a limited battery capacity, you have to move and rotate the modules to merge three of the same modules into a higher-tier unit.
The game has a strategic approach to these repairs, where you must avoid spreading electronic narcotics and overloaded units on the verge of exploding.
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In addition to this though, D1AL-ogue has a light story element to it, featuring small stories across each android. Developer CherryPicker calls these narratives “trivial yet deep daily stories within a cyberpunk universe”.
If you’d like to play D1AL-ogue now, you can pick it up from Steam for free. The game currently has 95% positive review scores based on 579 reviews, indicating that reception is “Overwhelmingly Positive”.
“The game's art is amazingly well done and each character's personality make them very distinct,” reads one review on the game’s store page. “For people who love games like coffee talk it would go wonderfully in their library.”
Another review reads: “Good game I liked it. Gameplay feature itself is fun but 100% the story is where it peaked. It felt oddly relateable with how society and life is today and really empathetic to the protagonist's struggles.”