You Are What You Read 1.0

The summary of You Are What You Read had us very excited as it sounded similar to a press based version of the fantastic Papers, Please. The idea behind the game is very simple yet intriguing where you play as an editor of a newspaper and must choose the three headlines to go on the front of each paper, you have a moral dilemma though do you go for integrity and run the more credible and more importantly true stories or do you throw your integrity to the side and go for instant viewership by printing outright lies and sensationalism?

Now in theory this could be a fantastic game however there’s so many rough edges that overall it was a big disappointment, when you pick up each piece of paper to see the news that you may print the text falls half on to a color that makes it absolutely impossible to read, so if there was some humor or interesting things written by the developers of You Are What You Read no one will be able to see them!

On top of that there’s no change from the two basic screens, it would be great to see a paper printed up with your chosen headlines at the end of each day, also there’s not really anything to play for the game it just stops abruptly after you’ve seen all of the headlines leaving you with something of an empty feeling.

There’s a really good idea here, it’s just a shame about its execution.

You can download You Are What You Read here for free.