Cyberpunk meets horror in this addictive detective game

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Play the role of a neural detective in this genre-defining cyberpunk horror game.
Play the role of a neural detective in this genre-defining cyberpunk horror game.
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As reality gets weirder, our ideas about the future get weirder still. The cyberpunk genre deals with ideas about what would happen when humans became enmeshed with computer networks. Now that that’s happening, the genre is asking new questions, like, what if you could hack people’s fears?

>observer_ is a horror game from the creators of Layers of Fear. Boasting a 9 out of 10 rating on Steam, it lets you loose in a dystopian future where the mind has become a crime scene. You play Dan Lazarski, an elite neural detective known as an Observer. You play a “neural detective” whose purpose is to hack and invade the minds of crime suspects. This is a world struggling with plagues, war, and squalor, all of which is the backdrop for a classic horror game. So to solve cases, you’ll relive the darkest fears of criminals and their victims. In the end, you’re forced to question your own sense of reality.

Buy now: Get a Steam key to >observer_ for $22.49, with the use of coupon code for a limited time: observer10.

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