Release Date: November 13, 2013
A science fiction-based satirical strategy game simulating the life of a serial space station employee whose ambition is to become the most popular person on the social networking site of the future. Gaining the sympathy of others allows you to climb up the social ladder and advance to more lucrative positions.
Redshirt is the comedy sci-fi sim about social networking aboard a space station, starring the station's most ambitious low-ranking peon: you!
Navigate the professional and interpersonal politics of the ubiquitous Spacebook to curry favor among friends and colleagues. As intense intergalactic conflict rages around you, it's up to you to accrue those all-important likes on your status updates! Whether you're looking for love, opportunities for promotion, or even a chance to play Zero-G golf with the captain, you can schmooze your way through social circles and claw your way up the career ladder. Perhaps you too can finally achieve the dream of an off-station transfer, or even the Redshirt's opportunity of a lifetime: being sent on an away-mission!
Platforms:
PC Windows
Developer: Tiniest Shark
Publisher: Positech Games
Age restrictions: none
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System Requirements for Redshirt Video Game:
PC / Windows
Recommended System Requirements:
Pentium 4 2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 256 MB (GeForce 8600 GT or better), 500 MB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7/8.
Game Ratings for Redshirt Video Game.
CGMagazine: 5 / 10 by Andrew Foltz
The less-than-riveting selection helps to remind us that the important people you see on your favorite Sci-Fi series had to pass through a lot of terrible jobs to get where they are.
Paste Magazine: 8 / 10 by Filipe Salgado
These are all the worst bits, of myself and of Facebook: the push towards less privacy, towards superficial relationships and walls of meaningless birthday greetings. Redshirt is a version of social media without, you know, the social part. It is the ultimate form of solipsism. If most life sims are imperfect reflections of life, Redshirt is, instead, an imperfect reflection of Facebook, itself an imperfect reflection of life. I am in a hall of mirrors and all I see is myself.
The Digital Fix: 7 / 10 by Mark Brill
Redshirt isn't going to appeal to everyone, but those who like the balancing act and resource management that go with management sims will find this is a solid game. There will be feelings of repetitiveness during the all too brief periods when you've managed to juggle everything into going well, and you'll find yourself just going through the motions to advance time until your next social or career crisis. Whilst you'll need to be a sci-fi fan to get a lot of the humour, this will actually be less important to your enjoyment of the game than a jaded view of the inanity appearing on your Facebook wall on a daily basis. To fans of turn-based management sims this is an entertaining insight into a future in which social networking rules every aspect of our lives rather than being a place just to quote song lyrics. Although, in Redshirt's vision of the future, people are still spending a lot of their time doing just that as well.
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