The WhatsNext verdict
For Fans of systemic immersive sims and puzzle-box sandboxes who enjoy open-ended problem solving and unconventional mechanics.: Transmitting your disembodied ego between robots turns every room into a playground of emergent hacking, stealth, and improvisation. Tradeoff: A slow, somewhat obtuse opening and unpolished direct combat demand patience before its systemic freedom truly shines.
What it does best
Open-ended problem solving that rewards weird plans
A genuinely unusual possession-based immersive sim
Immersive-sim systems that generate happy accidents
Puzzles built around experimentation rather than guessing
What might put you off
A slow, deliberately obtuse opening
Repetitive combat and limited atmosphere
The setup
What you are walking into
Transmit your disembodied ego between robots and devices and exploit their capabilities in the first-person, very British 70s/80s-era immersive sci-fi simulator Ctrl Alt Ego. Tool up and break bad bots into broken bits, or sneak a bug quietly into the system as if you were never there.
Where it lives
Genre
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