Only played once and love it

It begins with a plea for help, a closeup of a teenage girl's panicked face, clandestinely whispering about being "erased." Her name is Hope. You don't know why she's called you. You can't quite tell where she is. But you know she's frightened, and everything is horribly wrong.

Simple; intuitive and fun stealth gameplay; Great example of environmental storytelling; Compelling,engaging; well-plotted mystery; Excellent voice acting

Lacks in tension due to the inability to fail; Frequent hat tips to its Kickstarter roots kill immersion

Dystopian society isn't a novel concept in games these days. There are a whole bunch of visions of futures gone wrong out there. It's a concept that can be a bit hit and miss, but when it works it can be something truly special.

Making the leap from mobile to platforms, Republique brings a fully crafted world along with some excellent gameplay mechanics to deliver a strong 8-10 hour performance. Originally conceived and funded on Kickstarter as an episodic mobile stealth game, the complete package is now available on PS4,...

Strong story; Collectables add value; Excellent Voice acting

Disappointing last chapter; Occasional frame rate issues

A dark dealer at the end of a long path, a card game that could determine if your life is cut short...Hand of Fate is an interesting game, a combination of third-person action with card mechanics, feeling in the end like something that could actually be played on a tabletop.

Quest encounters keep deckbuilding fresh; genres blend surprisingly well together; unique, inventive gameplay

Some mild technical glitches like graphical slowdown; sometimes counter symbols in fights are hard to see; the game is comprised mostly of text

A perfect showcase for the power of indie developers; a deck building, roguelike, action RPG.

Phenomenal combination of genres; unlocking new cards is a blast

Some technical issues; trap sequences

"Destiny's on line two, so pick up the ******* phone already". That little gem of inspiration is brought to you by the big instigator Zager in the Kickstarter-funded title Republique by developer Camouflaj.

Positives + Immersive and captivating story + Collectibles that are relevant to story + Sharp vibrant visuals + Great voice acting and well blended music

Negatives; Auto camera switching problematic; AI Guards mostly incompetent; Longer delays between camera jumps; Chapters can't be replayed to pick up missed collectibles

This game came out for phones years ago. It just feels old and it clunky. The graphics got an improvement on PS4 but it looks shiny and weird, not realistic, and not cool style. It was very glitched on the phones and took forever for the levels to come out.

The classic image of the surveillance state-one of all-seeing cameras following normal citizens doing their daily business-is now a bit quaint. The reality is less a forest of glass-and-steel eyes than an invisible stream of data flooding into hungry servers, ready to be parsed, interpreted, and...

Top-notch worldbuilding and a stellar voice cast..

...wrapped around a lukewarm stealth game

Republique was one of those rare games that I was interested in playing despite knowing next to nothing about it; if I'm being up-front, I thought the title was interesting and the box art looked cool, and decided that was enough knowledge to inform my decision about whether or not I was going to...