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Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.

Whispers of a Machine is a adventure, point & click and detective game developed by Clifftop Games and Faravid Interactive and published by Raw Fury.
Released on April 17th 2019 is available on Windows and MacOS in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Italian and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 1,840 reviews of which 1,721 were positive and 119 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.62€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Whispers of a Machine into these genres:

Adventure Point & Click Detective Sci-fi Female Protagonist Cyberpunk Pixel Graphics 2D Singleplayer Mystery Choices Matter Puzzle Noir Retro Story Rich Atmospheric Futuristic Post-apocalyptic 2.5D Exploration

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP
  • Processor: 300 MHz Processor
  • Memory: 128 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 640 x 360 32 bit
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 800 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OSX 10.9 Mavericks
  • Processor: 300 MHz Processor
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600 ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870
  • Storage: 800 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Apple M1 chipsets are not supported

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May 2025
It's a superb point-and-click adventure title. It's lamentably rare in games like these to find a game that's crafted so that you can just naturally follow where clues and evidence lead you and solve puzzles organically, instead of trying to work out the abstruse and often-cutesy reasoning of the dev. The highest praise I can offer Whispers is that I almost never had to resort to pixel-hunting and random combine-this-with-that exercises, and on the rare occasions I did the frustration was short-lived. The game flowed smoothly, obstacles were neither too easy nor game-breakingly difficult: overall it was a solid seven or so hours of play. I like the setting and the basic concept here. I like the characters and the ideas -- classically cyberpunk -- I was impressed by the voice acting, and I enjoyed piecing together the mystery and all its twists and turns. The augments are a really nice idea: part of what saves the gameplay so often from the old point-and-clickisms is the options your augment gives you to get around problems in creative ways. The story was not mind-blowing, I'll grant you, but it was very satisfying, and the setting is tantalizing. I would love to see more of it someday, if this game ever gets a follow-up.
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March 2025
This game was made for me. I love mysteries with cool worlds. And this world is really cool. I love the augmentations that allow you to play with AI. I think it is a really fun game
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Feb. 2025
Scandinavian post-cyberpunk is fascinating. A detective point and click game with RPG elements, an unusual setting and a femme fatale as protagonist.
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Sept. 2024
You know a game is Good™ when you finish it and get overwhelmed with feelings of anger, sadness, emptiness and frustration that there is no more game to play. But than you remember that you can play it again and make different choices and all is well in the world. 5/5 Blue Vials.
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Aug. 2024
Swedish science-fiction adventure in the cozy mode, as you send Inspector Vera snoopin' round the limited confines of a mushroom-topped tower town for one eventful week. It's the post-collapse and people are crawling around the carcass of the great silicon beast like latch key lice; yes, every scrap of technology driven by AI or CPU in the robotic glory days was slapped violently from humanity's hand nearly a century ago -- now the only folk with high tech are the tip-top ruling class, who juice their enforcers and detectives with nanomachine-rich goop called Blue. Though there are maybe several puzzles of the classic adventure type, much of the work involves realistic logic, or perhaps the judicious application of your superpowers while following logical lines: going around Nordsund and talking the hardscrabble folk into spilling their beans, or sneaking into the right places to grab evidence are the primary things -- exactly what Phillip Marlowe or Paul Pine do much of the time (but instead of applying SF superpowers, those classic detectives are always doing things like taking lead saps without permanent brain damage and shooting guns out of the hands of dangerous dames). There are three styles of approach you can use for your Vera: A-hole force, womanly empathy, and cold calculation. There is a personality pyramid in your inventory bar with Empathy, Force, and Logic at its points and a white dot showing your orientation on it, and how you solve puzzles and talk to people in the first half determines most of how you will have to play the second half -- how you'll talk to people later on, and impressively . . . the very powers your reactive AI goop gives to Vera ! It's a pretty nice set-up and it makes sense too -- because if you've been playing the game all along as a jerk who uses her nanojuice to rip doors off their hinges (instead of puzzling or nicely wheedling them open), you shouldn't just up and be able to talk like a diffident little flower with a spark of investigatory determination flickering somewhere in her petals, or be able to cast a gentle techno-spell on people that makes them temporarily forget their troubles without springing a red leak from the nose. I dig detective tales of the classic kind and I certainly enjoy science-fiction. This overcast, slowburn adventure took me in with its world building-in-a-box and do-it-yourself approach to its heroine. It's from the maker of the estimable Kathy Rain and feels Wadjet Eye as all get-out, if that has as much cachet with you as it does with me. (Only thing that bugs me about the game is that you don't get to see what the ultimate results of your final choice are! I know there are hard limits in a production as small as this which already shows remarkable ambition, but I think an extra screen or two with minimal animation would have got the point across.)
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Whispers of a Machine is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

Whispers of a Machine is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

Whispers of a Machine received 1,721 positive votes out of a total of 1,840 achieving a rating of 8.90.
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Whispers of a Machine was developed by Clifftop Games and Faravid Interactive and published by Raw Fury.

Whispers of a Machine is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Whispers of a Machine is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Whispers of a Machine is not playable on Linux.

Whispers of a Machine is a single-player game.

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Whispers of a Machine
14.99€ -96% 14.99€ 0.62€
8.9
1,721
119
Game modes
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Online players
4
Developer
Clifftop Games, Faravid Interactive
Publisher
Raw Fury
Release 17 Apr 2019
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