Didn’t like Act 1, but the rest was good and pulled me in. Sweetie: 5/5 – Once you figure out who or what everyone’s roles are in the game, it’s very sentimental indeed. Geeky: 4/5 – Yes it only has pixel “RPG Maker” style graphics, but it deals with time travel and scifi geeky themes. Short, sweet, mysterious, intriguing, and thought-provoking, all of these are words I would use to describe the story of Impostor Factory. The dialogue in Impostor Factory is usually pretty good, sometimes a little cheesy, but mostly heartfelt and endearing.Įventually, once you figure out what’s going on near the end, there is a large emotional impact, so you do end up caring about the characters in the end, it’s just a slow build up before they really connect the dots there. Often times the game relies simply on ambient background sounds, but when it does use actual music, it is very beautiful. The game soundtrack is both equal parts memorable and minimal. You’re thrown in not knowing anything about any of the characters and it takes a long time to really build that emotional connection. I’d say Impostor Factory has more of a mysterious and dark tone. Like To The Moon, Impostor Factory also deals with illness, age, death, and regrets and unfinished business. – I feel like To The Moon was longer – but it’s been years since I played so perhaps I remember it incorrectly. I clocked about 5 hours, but I went AFK a few times during that – so probably average playtime will be around 4 hours for most folks. That emotion slowly begins to build in Acts 2 and 3 – and really hits home at the game’s end. I really disliked the first act of Impostor Factory – not only because it’s repetitive and confusing (intentionally so on both those accounts) – but because it lacked the emotion of the first game. That doesn’t mean it was a bad game though. But for me, it didn’t live up to its predecessor. I’d been very excited for Impostor Factory for a long time. I had thought I reviewed To The Moon here at some point, but I couldn’t find the review to link to it, so perhaps not. You will see some familiar characters from To The Moon by the end. Impostor Factory is meant to be a prequel in a way to To The Moon, although it’s slow to link the puzzle pieces together. They have a few other games under their belts including To The Moon, which is probably their most famous title. I just finished Impostor Factory, a little short indie game by Freebird Games. Additional Notes: Practically runs on a potato.Affiliate links within this post may be commissionable.The first one is heard when Quincy follows Lynri into the manor's kitchen to investigate the smoke, and the second one plays in the university library, soon after Lynri and Quincy first meet, after they both fall asleep while catching up on their work. There are two songs which play in the game that are not included in the soundtrack album.The game was released on September 30th, 2021. It was further delayed per a July 2021 announcement on the game's Steam news page, stating that the game was set to release in September. In November 2020, Kan Gao announced that the release date was pushed back to spring 2021. Laura Shigihara, whose vocals were featured in the previous major installments, is noticeably missing from the credits Kan stated in the Freebird Games Discord server that he thought her voice wasn't suited for the game's darker theme. It prominently features an unnamed lady in a red dress, presumably the same one featured in the promotional posters. The official trailer premiered on August 5th, 2020. A second (joke) trailer was released on November 29th, 2019, revealing that the game was slated to release at the end of 2020. It was not yet confirmed whether the game would be a part of the Sigmund Corp. Impostor Factory was first announced on March 9th, 2019 on director Kan Gao's YouTube channel as a title preview video.