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The Westport Independent

by Double Zero One Zero

  • Released Jan 21, 2016
  • Free
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)

77%positive reviews

270 positive82 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Tense, unique choice-driven story set in a repressive country

  • Thoughtful, morally complex decisions

Cons

  • Unfinished, with little change from player choices

  • Very short and often compared unfavourably to Papers Please

Mixed

  • Some enjoy its tense repression story, others find it unfinished and derivative

System requirements

Minimum:

Memory: 1 GB RAM

Graphics: Open GL 2.0

Storage: 100 MB available space

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"The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator about the last weeks on an independent newspaper which is to be dismantled according to a new government bill. You play an editor in charge of choosing what will be printed in the paper, making sure that the content is nice and proper according…

Ratings

  • 70IGDB players7 ratings
  • 67Critics1 reviews
  • 68Overall8 scores

Languages

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English