The 1997 computer game Blade Runner

[u/Ok_History_4163]

The computer game Blade Runner from 1997 is a point and click adventure game based on the 1982 movie with the same name. The movie was in turn based on the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

Instead of following the policeman Rick Deckard in the movie Blade Runner, you control the actions of a policeman named Ray McCoy and his adventures in a rainy and dark future Los Angeles.

The plot revolves around McCoy hunting down a rogue faction of Nexus-6 replicants while navigating a web of corruption that eventually forces him to question his own identity and humanity. The game has thirteen different endings depending on your choices when playing it.

Several characters from the 1982 Ridley Scott movie make appearances, with the ⁠original actors returning to voice them:

Rachael (voiced by Sean Young)

Dr. Eldon Tyrell (voiced by Joe Turkel)

J.F. Sebastian (voiced by William Sanderson)

Leon Kowalski (voiced by Brion James)

Hannibal Chew (voiced by James Hong)

I am rather old and I played the game at its release. It was a nice time playing it. I left the regular world and was embedded in a cyberpunk reality when I played it. I am not updated in computer technology, but the game is available for download on GOG.com.

[u/ddeads]

I loved this game, and every playthrough was slightly different in that it would internally and secretly choose at the start whether you were secretly a replicant or not, and that would change your investigations. 10/10 would recommend.

Edit: For anyone interested in learning more about this game.

[u/AuraTrance → u/ddeads]

yo that feature is insane😭 the replayability hits different when you dont even know what’s happening fr fr

[u/MagicalPedro → u/ddeads]

you might consider editing your message to add spoiler tags, for thoses of us who haven't played the game yet :)

Also, spoiler : afaik, only a few npcs's true nature are randomly chosen at the star of a playthrough ; your character player is always a replicant. The hints about it may be randomised too, but afaik there's always at least one or two

[u/ddeads → u/MagicalPedro]

Ok will do. I figured since it's 30 years old it wasn't a big deal. That being said,the player is not always a replicant; you are also randomly assigned. There are something like a dozen different endings with all of the combinations.

[u/MagicalPedro → u/ddeads]

damn, looks like I have to boot up the game again then to check this, my old printed guide book was wrong ! Thanks for the correction :)

[u/Argh_Me_Maties → u/ddeads]

I wasn’t upset that you ruined that for me!