All men are created equalīeyond all the high-profile intrigue, there are also commoners, living in the slums in poverty and hunger, forced to do everything in their power in order to secure their survival. Several powerful figures have their eyes set on the throne and see this time of turmoil as the best chance to seize it. The tricky thing is that Pyrodactyl made sure that there would be no easy ones and that there would always be consequence.Īn outside power is willing to provide food, if only to improve the condition of its own refugees within the city-state.
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You assume control of ordinary citizens and witness a series of encounters during which you have to make some choices, not necessarily good or bad.
Unrest takes place in a fantasy land based on Indian culture, following the woes of a struggling city-state, fallen from its glory, on the brink of an uprising. The game is delving head-first into racism, greed, poverty, violence, discrimination and other such controversial subjects that we are still struggling with, and instead of casting a veil over your eyes and making you press F to pay your respects, it shows you that the real enemy was inside you all along. It's not the lavish banquet that Larian's role-playing game offers, but instead a proper indie story, of a group of unknowns convincing other people that they can help create something beautiful via Kickstarter pledges. I was thinking about it for a long time after putting it down, and it managed to do this on a shoestring budget, within a very limited time frame.
Unrest gets my vote because it managed to touch me the most. The game is far from being the best indie game released this year when it comes to production value and quality/quantity of content, and if I were to include titans such as Divinity: Original Sin, then there would be no other winner of any contest ever. Unrest is a narrative-driven adventure game that is all about taking some pretty hard decisions, accompanied by inquisitive glances cast within you. Next up in our Softpedia Game of the Year 2014 awards is the winner of the Best Indie category, Unrest by Pyrodactyl.
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