Cellveillance

Presented as a first-person FMV detective drama, Cellveillance casts you as an apartment manager in debt. A mysterious organization demands information about the residents, drawing you into the building’s private lives and the incidents unfolding there.

You explore the apartment, check surveillance footage, review information, and interact with residents. You decide what to report and how to respond to what you uncover, balancing financial pressure against the effects your choices may have on others.

Choices open different story branches and endings. Money, karma, and residents’ affection are tracked as you progress, and a story map helps show how routes connect. The game also includes card-based mini-games.

Players who enjoy the game often praise its extensive branching paths and choices that can alter later events, along with the surveillance-based mystery and the cast’s performances. Some find the early atmosphere especially tense. Reviews are divided on the later story, with recurring criticism that it shifts in direction or becomes confusing, and that replaying routes can be laborious.