Mindcop Review (schizunio)
A little bit conflicted here, but yes - the game is great. Big warning though - there's no railroading here and you really have to pay attention.
That said - it feels like you need to be lucky to actually manage to solve this on your first attempt. There's so much information everywhere, and you can just not go to some specific places to know the most important things. Combining that with the time limit mechanics, it's... making it good and bad. I love that you have to deduce things on your own, and not waste time on "trying to click through everything" - but on the other hand, you can't really know what is important or not. There's quite some red herrings here, and a whole separate "criminal side story" that doesn't bring much to the table (apart from leading you astray). While this makes your playtrough definitely more unique - it might just end "unlucky".
The biggest gripe of mine was probably not even the fact that you might not "win" the first time - that's fine, but that the next attempt is still going to be full of tedium. Yeah, maybe you can now skip the dialogues, and you have a lot of context knowledge in your head - but some things you still need to actually "uncover in game" to be able to use them. I'm not sure how this could've been solved better, but it might be a little disheartening to start all over and try to "optimize" things better (and do thing differently).
That all said, I do think it's really good, with a great vibe and the weirdness. I really enjoyed it - but I do wish some things were managed a little differently.