I have some rather mixed feelings about this game.
Firstly, I’ll say that the graphics and audio are spectacularly done. No complaints with that, 5/5. But my complaints have to do with the rest of the game.
This game is basically a slightly unorthodox kinetic visual novel, and that’s a decent framework, but it’s not very up-front with that. In my first playthru, I spent a great deal of time wondering when I was going to play the game. The part that gives you a menu and tells you to click everything, most egregiously, felt like a forced tutorial for some kind of menu system that you might find in a different kind of game. It put me in a mindset of tending to ignore the story you were trying to tell.
And as for that story, given that it’s tasked with carrying the whole game, I’m not really impressed, either with the story in general, or with its connection to the “unstable” theme. Firstly, the “unstable” theme… while there’s a token mention of an “unstable climate”, that’s not actually what the story is about. The actual story is about a worldwide government conspiracy where the sun is secretly a giant lightbulb in a giant room that the flat Earth is on the floor of.
And to be perfectly honest, I find that story just in general to be rather uninspired and uncompelling. How is this supposed to make me feel? Because I don’t feel anything. There’s this message that’s shoved in your face the whole time about how you shouldn’t trust the World Government, but… in the real world, there is no World Government.
Now, it’s certainly possible to make this into a compelling story. Just take a look at, for example, The Lord of the Rings, which manages to make a compelling part of its narrative the dangers of the fictional One Ring. But it doesn’t do that just by painting the One Ring as one-dimensionally obviously bad. We see both in The Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings multiple occasions where Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins are actually materially helped by the power of the One Ring. It has to be destroyed and its power cannot be trusted, but we can fully understand how attempting to use it against Sauron might seem to characters in-universe like a good idea, even without the corruption of its direct influence.
This game, by contrast, seems to pretty much be going out of its way to paint anyone in-universe who believes the World Government as stupid sheep who don’t think for themselves. Which I suppose might feel good to real-world conspiracy theorists, but doesn’t make for a particularly good story.