Residual Income

this is a short game about a vampire in a cyberpunk world. it kinda has a puzzle and it kinda has a meaningful choice at the end but mostly its just, i guess, a character study of an ultra cool (or so she would like us to think) vampire assassin.

the first person description has a stacatto quality and a "trying very hard to be bada**" vibe that reminded me strongly of short skirt long jacket by cake. which was hard to take seriously both bc the song itself is unserious and bc i mostly know it from people memeing on it. i don't think the game is supposed to be funny exactly but i do think we're supposed to think the pc is trying a little too hard to convince herself that she is cool and in charge and doesn't need anything or anyone.

i think the length of the game was right for that bc it would have become annoying very fast otherwise. on the other hand at this length there is not much time to explain the setting so the urban fantasy plus cyberpunk thing was a little confusing and there were a bunch of concepts referenced that i still don't really get. i see from this page that this is part of a series and i don't know the other parts of the series so possibly the author just assumed readers would already know the setting.

i hope this isn't coming off too mean or anything. the game was interesting. i especially liked the scene where the assassin runs into her target's mom. i felt like i saw hints of vulnerability in her narration there. i might try other games in this universe.