Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma (2016) PC

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma is the third edition of an excellent series of adventure video games with logic elements.

The game is developed by the Japanese studio Spike Chunsoft.

Description

The events take place in a research unit on Mars, where the object of study is how relationships are formed between people living in a closed isolated space. The plot takes place between the events of the previous games – this is the continuation of the first part and the prequel of the second. Zero Time Dilemma includes characters you might have met before, such as Carlos, Q and Akane. They are unwittingly drawn into a game in which their lives are at stake. To survive, they need to get out of a locked room, and their fate is in the hands of a mysterious character – Zero. The protagonists are divided into three teams and must fight for their lives.

The presented actions are not related to the plot of any of the previous parts. This is an independent story that contains answers to many questions from past games in the franchise.

Gameplay

Zero Time Dilemma is divided into 90-minute stages. Each chapter includes dialogues between characters and logic puzzles that you have to solve to get out of the room. Each stage ends with you having to make a moral decision that affects the fate of the characters. The important thing is that you can switch between teams of participants in the deadly game to ensure cooperation between them. The game uses a random algorithm that can work differently in the same story situation during a certain gameplay. This means that replaying the game changes the consequences of your actions, and the mechanisms that kept the characters alive before can now kill them.

Features:

• It has fully 3D-graphic stylized graphics;
• instead of blocks of text, short animated sequences are used in production;
• from the very first minutes, the game is complemented by a dark atmospheric soundtrack;
• the dialogues of the characters are fully voiced and available in Japanese and English;
• after each stage, the characters lose consciousness and do not remember what happen