NOCLIP Pocket E12 - Capricious Genie - Simulacra

I AM SOCIETY RESHAPED. A PODCAST DESTINED FOR ASCENSION. A
HYPERREAL EXISTENCE. Welcome back! I hope everyone is having a
properly mystifying Mystery May so far. For our pocket episode this
month we’re going to be tackling a phone game that takes its
platform quite seriously. Simulacra is a mystery/horror adventure
game where you take on the role of a faceless bystander trying to
solve a disappearance with access only to the victim’s phone. An
iteration on a similar, if not identical, concept explored in this
developer’s previous work “Sara is Missing” (or SIM, as a very
pointed acronym), the game’s interface is really what sells its
concepts and it is well designed enough to compensate for
Simulacra’s less adept areas. While less transformative than its
Black Mirror facade, literally and figuratively, would have you
believe, it is stylish enough to maintain a surprising amount of
suspense throughout its short runtime and qualify it as a gem. A
diamond-studded Motorola Razr in the rough. We talk about the highs
and lows of jump scares, the surprisingly diverse play environment
allowed by a smartphone home screen, and how for the first time
ever, a piece of writing could have been saved by more liberal
emoji use. Thanks for listening to the podcast this week. I’m kind
of in love with the whole “Mystery May” concept, even though it is
incontrovertibly stupid, so I hope you’re getting as much of a kick
out of our more guided game selections as we are. We’re finishing
up the theme on the next full episode with Return of the Obra Dinn,
which you should absolutely play because having it spoiled would be
kind of tragic, but Pocket returns next time with the Pokémon
Trading Card League. I hope you’ll join us then, and remember to
join our Discord to puzzle these games out with us and other
members of the community! Discord: https://discord.gg/tRNNSJ6