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The best game you missed in October 2020: MesmerFreedom and canned fish for all!
Freedom and canned fish for all!
We are living, we are constantly told, through unprecedented times. Years like 2020 are the kind of years that make me think things like “woah, we are living through history, like,all the time”, like a stoned 20-year-old gap year dude coming to self awareness for the first time in his life.
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Sometimes you can just persuade someone to do something for you, in a kind of roulette wheel mini-game that you can tip in your favour with bribery, blackmail or threats. It becomes surprisingly complex - if you try and blackmail someone into giving you more blackmail on themselves, you’re going to fail even if you win the roulette game, because what are they, a fucking idiot? And you can’t bribe the cannery owner with food because he already has loads of it.
You can also stand on a box and yell things at the crowd, balancing the points you make so that you don’t lose too much standing with a group, or riling one load up so much they push back at the cops. But bullhorns are, unfortunately, single use, so you’ll probably have to do another load of favours to get another…
Mesmer isn’t perfect - you don’t have a journal to remind you, for example, who you have to talk to to secure a new bullhorn. This becomes a large problem when you have a lot of things to do, which is practically all the time in Mesmer, and it’s annoying if you step away from the game for a day only to return and have no idea what the fuck is going on or who you owe a shakedown to.
Butfor all that, I’ve found it a lot of slightly hectic fun, not to mention a bit cathartic, and though I have yet to successfully lead Mesmer in revolution, I’m going to keep giving it a bloody good try.
I played a demo of Mesmer when I was investigating thebest of the Steam Autumn Fest, and you can still try that demo out now if you want to see if Mesmer is for you. Otherwise, Mesmer is available viaSteamorGOGfor £11.40/€12.50/$15.
