Ok Honestly this game is a treat. Incredibly interesting themes showing a modern interpretation of the prologue to 1984 in a sense. The mechanics work really well, making your decisions hold weight and using your own progress play into the games narrative hands (you'll see what I mean near the end). The music is well done too, a lovely little score playing in the background that never became annoying and felt at ease with the visuals and what I was doing, with some incredibly well timed swells in music and emotion as twists were revealed, something rather hard for a game which is mostly reading.
To explain what made me love the game is to describe a singular moment. Orwell floods you with information that seems useful and useless at the same time, using a highlighting system where certain phrases, words, numbers are made available to you to drag over to the left and thus profile your target. This occurs while reading throught the information, so it will pop up and if you are lazy, make you reliant on it, you may rush through the first couple hours just relying on this system, easy enough. But there was a point where I had to choose between two pieces of information to submit, and none of the lists of highlights I had collected seemed to help. Thankfully I like to take my time with my games and so had been reading everything carefully for intentions of characters and the like. Which made it all the more satisfying and magical when it clicked. When I realised that I had vague recollections of a small part of a post that I had read 30 minutes ago (I did say I like to take my time). This post had no highlights. The mechanics had not made me look at it. There was no cue on screen saying, "looking at this bit may help you decide on your answer". It was just me and my memory, rewarding me for actually paying attention to the game, I felt intelligent and attentive, even more so when it helped me make the correct choice without relying on luck.
I'm even going to replay it, something I've never done with an intensely story driven game like this, where I know how it unfolds. This will easily stay in my top ten for a long time I think.
There are only a couple of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I have on this game, one is that I kind of wish we had multiple cases to go through instead of the large overarching one to see different uses and consequences to the use of Orwell, and the other is a technical one. At some point the game froze oddly and I had to quit out of the application, but thankfully the autosave is pretty damn sold and I never lost more than a few seconds of gameplay, I assume every action is autosaved and is the reason fo that.