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Alternate Reality: The City
Alternate Reality: The CityExplore an alien‑dumped city and shape your destiny through moral choices
Data Hacker: Reboot
Data Hacker: RebootHack reality itself in a sci‑fi RPG adventure
Overview
Description

In Alternate Reality: The City, players are abducted from Earth and thrust into a familiar yet strange metropolis in an alternate dimension. Your mission is to uncover clues about your captors and find a way back home while navigating a richly detailed sci‑fi world. The game blends classic first‑person RPG mechanics—skills, stats, experience, and a variety of shops—with a moral alignment system that reacts to your actions, influencing how the environment treats you. Encounters can be resolved through combat, trickery, charm, or bribery, offering multiple paths to progress. The storyline is non‑linear, allowing you to take jobs to boost specific skills or simply pass time, and your choices determine whether you become a force for good or evil. Released in 1985, this single‑player experience is available on iOS and Mac, delivering retro RPG depth with a unique moral evaluation system.

In Data Hacker: Reboot, time, space and parallel universes collapse into a single, paradox‑driven narrative. As a Data Hacker you navigate a Japanese‑styled world that questions existence, love, and loss while battling across multiple realities. The game blends deep role‑playing mechanics with a haunting sci‑fi story, delivering emotional highs and lows that will make you laugh, cry, and reflect on the meaning of life. Designed for single‑player immersion, it offers an indie experience that feels both epic and intimate.

Pricing
Paid (One-time)
Paid (One-time)
Category
CRPG
Story-Rich
Best for
Fans of classic sci‑fi RPGs
Fans of narrative sci‑fi RPGs
Specifications
Specifications
developer
Paradise Programmin
New Reality Games
publisher
Datasoft, Inc.
New Reality Games
multiplayer
Single player
Single player
age rating
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PEGI 12
General
release date
1985-10-01
2015-04-17
msrp
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$14.99
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • Deep moral alignment system
  • Non‑linear quest structure
  • Multiple encounter resolution methods
  • Classic retro RPG feel
  • Deep, philosophical storyline
  • Innovative world‑shifting mechanics
  • Beautiful pixel‑art presentation
  • Multiple endings increase replay value
Cons
  • Limited platform availability (iOS, Mac only)
  • Graphics dated by modern standards
  • No multiplayer or online features
  • Limited combat variety
  • Occasional pacing issues in early chapters
  • No multiplayer or co‑op mode
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