Whispers of a Machine

I don't even think a review is necessary, just trust me, buy this game!!!
Ok, for those that need more, here's why:
This game truly captures the 'choices matter' genre, while also giving you a well rounded story and retro gaming style. I can't tell you the graphics are beautiful, as they don't need to be, this will give you classic point and click vibes from the first moment to the last. Nothing is over or underdone.
The characters all seem to have depth, and all contribute to the story, no red herrings there!
The story itself gives feelings of dystopia and a changed future world, leaving you to decide where your morals lie, and how you want to interact with people.
Your interaction style helps dictate the 'powers' (for want of a better word) that your character has. You can be authoritarian and unwilling to waver from the law, or empathetic and show your human side. Your choices affect your game play and options, as well as the ending.
I found that I plated this game through very quickly due to being addicted in a very short space of time. However , I had nearly 5 hours game play my first time round, and still have two other paths and multiple achievements to play through, so lots of replayability.

A game I had on wishlist for a long time before installing, was not disappointed. Great storytelling, slightly challenging puzzles, a few may frustrate you because they require retracing your steps. Most of all I liked the story, the intrigue, and always the possibility of a backstab. The rich telling of it through your character choices mixed in with a relationship that cannot be, and of course the chance at 3 different ways to finish the game.
Would pick up another title by this publisher if they can improve the smoothness of the game mechanics in puzzles, which are all in all pretty well done for a point-click story type game.

Good story, good voice acting, no 'moon logic' adventure game bullshit.
HOWEVER game is very short - I did it in about 4 hours played. Be warned.
Protip: you can backup your save before the final choice and paste it back over to choose the different endings.

6h game, really nice design, ok story and all English voice acting. Good game that I have fully enjoyed. Your talking style will forge you character that earn specific skills and not others so the way to deal with some scenes (especially toward the end) will be specific to your character personality. The game is enough railroaded or more like confined to few areas to go so you don't waste time walking everywhere/talking to everybody when you are lost/not sure what to do. There is 3 ending corresponding to your last choice. I will not replay the game for the other ending.

I'm really impressed by Clifftop Games. They have a really great grasp of storytelling, pacing and atmosphere, which are really the most integral parts of a good point-and-click game that are often overlooked. They're really great at stringing puzzles together in a way that feels satisfying to solve without ever pushing the difficulty too far and breaking emersion. There's enough clues and guidance that you pretty much always know what you need to do next but it's still engaging throughout.
I enjoyed Kathy Rain but I think Whispers of a Machine is a huge improvement in pretty much every way. The story is much more unique and surprising, the puzzles are more sophisticated and the visual design is really solid. It also avoids the pitfall that Kathy fell into of forcing you to do some pretty gross stuff (e.g. tasering a homeless man) to get the story to move along. This makes Vera much more consistent as sympathetic protagonist, which is really important to get you invested in an ethics-focused narrative.
Overall I just really felt swept up in the setting and, even though the story deals with murder and violence, I found it kind of calming to exist in the space the developers had created and gradually unravel the mystery. Definitely would recommend.

I finished the game in 8,5 hours and I didn't use any guides to help with the puzzles. Most of the puzzles were the kind that you need to use common sense and really think between the lines. The game is challenging and few of the puzzles really took their time to open up.
The story was really interesting and rich. The voice acting was really good. Only negative thing that comes to mind is that the game could've been longer. I played slow and took my time on everything and it still took over 8 hours to complete the game.
Of course there are three different ways to complete the game but still.

Really good point-and-click game with quite interesting detective story. The augmentation abilities of the detective are really interesting idea and it is connected with the story and the post-AI world of the story itself. You will get different abilities based on some of your decisions and then the situations have different way how to solve them. So it is possible to play the game again. There are even a little different endings I think. I felt really like a detective during the gameplay.