Need to Know

I would recommend getting this at this price point. It's long gameplay though there are parts that can be unclear, or confusing. With some trial and error it's easy to get around. Overall if you're looking for a hacker style game it's a good casual play.

0 found this helpful, 2026-06-10

The game description says: "You must spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives, and determine how dangerous they are. You can also resist these suffocating privacy invasions by aiding underground groups in leaking data to the media. Or, you can just use all of that juicy classified information for your own personal gain. Your call." I took this statement literally, and after my first major...

168 found this helpful, 2018-09-01

So I was one of the people who tracked this game from pretty much the start. I backed it because I loved the idea of the setting and the Papers, Please-style gameplay. Now that I've finished the final product I can say I got both a little more and a little less then I anticipated. So let's start with what was good. From what I saw this game looked like a 1984-style distopian future game. It seemed like you would...

51 found this helpful, 2018-09-18

Good game for mature children and teens, but most adults will be disappointed. The main game mechanic is "finding a needle in a haystack". Unfortunately, the haystack is tiny, and the needles are not very well hidden. You are provided a list of keywords to find in tiny documents, given basic criteria. The biggest challenge is making sure it is spelled correctly before highlighting it. I expected the game to be more...

23 found this helpful, 2020-06-30

Edit Saturday, November 3, 2018: As a Monomyth developer posted below this review, this game has changed a lot since it's release and since I wrote this review. While I do not currently have time to give the game another shot due to classes, keep in mind that the review below is not an accurate reflection of the current version of Need to Know. So I tried to like this game, I really did, and I was one of the ones...

67 found this helpful, 2018-08-29

Need to Know is a surveillance simulation, the gameplay of which is somewhat reminiscent of the cold and calculated papers, please. You assume the role of an employee of an NSA-like organization called The Department of Liberty, and take care of checking people's browsing history and other personal information to identify a possible security risk. The game gives you more options and scary ways to control the longer...

23 found this helpful, 2019-12-19