The Red Strings Club

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The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy. The professed altruistic corporation Supercontinent Ltd is on the verge of releasing Social Psyche Welfare: a system that will eliminate depression, anger and fear from society.

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Developer:
Deconstructeam
Publisher:
Devolver Digital
Release date:
22 January 2018
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (143)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (3216)

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Description

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

The professed altruistic corporation Supercontinent Ltd is on the verge of releasing Social Psyche Welfare: a system that will eliminate depression, anger and fear from society. However, the bartender of a clandestine club and a freelance hacker don't regard this evolution as an improvement but as brainwashing. Alongside unwitting company employees and a rogue empathy android, the duo will pull all the strings they can to bring down this scheme.

Cyberpunk Thriller Narrative

Uncover a mysterious corporate program that promises a blissful existence while debating what does happiness means and what lengths are permissible to obtain it.

Psychological Bartending

Read your customer's’ mood and mix the perfect cocktail to manipulate the client's emotions in order to gather the information you want and progress your agenda of stopping Supercontinent's plans.

Genetic Implant Pottery

Design genetic implants at a high-tech lathe to change the attitude and direction of the corporation’s most influential executives.

Vocal Corporate Espionage

Assume the voice of important figures in the Social Psyche Welfare project and play their own motivations against each other over the phone to uncloak their plans.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 7/8.1/10 x64
Processor:
Intel Pentium D 915 (2800 MHz), AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2600 MHz) or equivalent
Memory:
1 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce 7600GS (256 MB) or Radeon HD 2600 PRO (256 MB)
Storage:
400 MB available space

recommended*

Not specified

User reviews

TheRatQueen
Not recommended | 22 Jun 2026
7.9h played

Deeply saddened to say that I don't recommend this game. Played it with my brother on my birthday and we had a really fun time until the end. We both love philosophy, so we enjoyed weighing all of the options we had and

Helpful: 15
akhmedzadefidan
Recommended | 26 May 2026
3.7h played

this is my first time i played such kind of a game. Ngl it's pretty short, but I recommend to play it in the middle of the night. Dialogues are indeed interesting, the plot at some point is emotional. I'm glad i decided

Helpful: 9
Okrana
Recommended | 16 Jun 2026
3.1h played

Short and complex. Sweet and sour. Simple and deep. For the lenght of a feature-lenght movie, this game proposes fun mini-games, great dialogues and enthralling mechanics, all boiling down to a great narrative about the

Helpful: 7
Tiki
Recommended | 22 Jun 2026
4.0h played

If you like story based games, you'll love this. I loved the other game mechanics that were not just asking questions to move the story along. You get to feel really connected to the characters and want to know more

Helpful: 0
karashi
Not recommended | 31 May 2026
1.7h played

Really liked the representation, music, and art, but I already felt exhausted after fixing drinks for the first guest. The pottery crafting and drink-pouring are overwhelming and torturous for people with spatial

Helpful: 6
Lolipop
Recommended | 26 May 2026
5.1h played

I think at this point it's impossible for me not to like a Deconstructeam game. The game isn't too long, it is beatable in a few sessions, and it makes you think. The themes it explores and the questions it raises make

Helpful: 2