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  1. December 27, 2023 - Day 361 - NewPlay Bonus Review
    Total NewPlays: 388

    Game: Night Call

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Jul 18, 2019
    Installation Date: Dec 21, 2023
    Unplayed: 6d
    Playtime: 55m

    Night Call feels like noir-ish adventure mashup between a visual novel and a map of Paris.

    Being that you're playing as a French cab driver, that's to be expected. You were assaulted and left for dead by a serial killer at the site of a pick-up while driving your cab.

    The game has you investigating your own attempted murder, with a touch of blackmail thrown in; another cop determined to prove that ACAB has determined your true identity, and uses this to blackmail you into assisting with her "investigation".

    The screen is split horizontally, with the top half being a stylised GPS screen, and the bottom half being the inside of your cab, as if you were watching from a dashboard-mounted camera.

    Each night, you drive your cab around, picking up passengers that appear on the GPS screen. You engage with the passengers, conversing and occasionally gathering clues.

    It's incredibly moody, but so very slow. Fortunately, there's the option for the conversations to auto-play until you reach an engagement point, but I did end up running some CSR2 grinding races on my phone while reading the conversations.

    At the end of each night's driving, you take the clues you've gathered, plus the ones left by your detective "friend" in an envelope outside your house each night, and slowly try to work out which of the five suspects is the killer.

    It's this aspect of the game that has me continuing to want to play, but only just. Night Call is barely just:

    3: OK

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