Wordy and unusually flavored, Analogue feels like a potential evolutionary path for the text adventure, with a strong sense of the digital novel and an impressive tinkering with the user interface.
Guided by ghosts in the ships machine - a pair of artificial intelligences guiding the player through logs and letters from the missing would-be settlers - a story emerges of repression and cultural decay. Ostensibly science fiction, Analogue: A Hate Story delves for its story into Korean history, and specifically the comparison between two periods, to inform its story of an investigator searching through the archives of a long-lost generation ship.
