Replica

In a dystopian state, you are pressured by the authorities to examine a phone belonging to an unknown person and find evidence linking its owner to terrorism.

Explore the phone’s messages, contacts, photos, call history, and social media. Solve password and other interface-based puzzles to uncover information and piece together the owner’s life.

Decide what to report as you respond to the authorities’ demands. Your actions lead to different outcomes, with twelve endings to discover across repeat playthroughs.

Players who enjoy Replica often praise its unusual phone-based investigation and the way searching through someone’s private information supports its themes of surveillance and privacy. Some find the pressure and choices involving what to report compelling, and appreciate revisiting the story for different endings. Other reviews find the experience very short, the writing heavy-handed, or some puzzle solutions difficult to infer.