Whispers of a Machine
Step into the gaming world with Whispers of a Machine, one of the top $3.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Raw Fury AB, this captivating Puzzle game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 17+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 17th April 2019, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 22nd February 2022.
Whether you have a liking for Puzzle, Adventure, games, Whispers of a Machine is sure to keep you hooked!
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"A gamers pixel point-and-click dream" -The Daily Fandom
"one of the most substantial point-and-click adventures we’ve played in a while" -Newsweek
"nostalgic, emotional, and beautiful" -Noisy Pixel
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented special agent tasked with investigating a string of murders. These brutal killings obscure a sinister truth, as Vera soon finds ties to a group of fanatics committed to creating an AI superintelligence — a pursuit outlawed for nearly a century.
Complicating things, a great loss from Vera’s past comes back to haunt her, making her question her own sanity and everything she stands for.
As an agent of the Central Bureau, Vera is equipped with an advanced nano-substance called Blue. This rare and sought-after technology allows her to develop superhuman abilities adapted to her psychological mindset.
Choose your playstyle and utilize these augmentations to investigate, gather information, and solve puzzles with multiple solutions.
Will Vera’s unique blend of skills and intuition be enough to solve the case, or will she discover that things are more ambiguous than they seemed? In this emotionally gripping story with existential twists and multiple endings, Vera’s actions will have monumental consequences not only for herself, but for all of humanity…
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INVESTIGATION, AUGMENTED: Will Vera approach situations with a more empathetic, analytical, or assertive style? Your choices will impact her augmentations and subsequent puzzle solutions.
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A POST-AI FUTURISTIC DYSTOPIA: Immerse yourself in a realized world of beautifully hand-drawn pixel art design and gorgeous settings influenced by the Nordics.
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POINT-AND-CLICK INNOVATION: A groundbreaking entry to the point-and-click adventure game genre by the experienced developers of Kathy Rain and The Samaritan Paradox.
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PROFESSIONALLY VOICED: 4,000+ lines of dialogue with full English voice acting, directed by Wadjet Eye Games’ Dave Gilbert.
** Images featured above have been taken on devices that support 16:9 resolution. Devices with resolutions that exceed 16:9 may experience issues with image scaling and clarity.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Whispers of a Machine on 22nd February 2022:
Added iOS 15 support
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This game is phenomenal. The story is well written and isnt obvious. The abilities add a special uniqueness to give you multiple play throughs without being too repetitive. The graphics are clean. It plays excellent on an iPhone 12. Our only complaint is that its not a well optimized port: the game runs fine but it eats into your battery life like crazy. Its be great if that could be addressed (and we tried playing on the lowest graphic setting). If you like point and click adventure games, mysteries, and a hint of sci fi, then definitely give this a shot.
This game really is PHENOMENAL! Only reason for our 4 our iPad mini 6th Gen (2021 Model) is up to date with iPad OS 16.5 This game is constantly crashing, its a spontaneous bug – we cant track it, so we can replicate it, but here is what we have identified: Crashes as soon as we continue a saved game or start new game Crashes if we play (a saved game or new game) within 10 minutes Crashes if we play (a saved game or new game) within 2 minutes Crashes if we play (a saved game or new game) an hour later or so During first crime scene, after you scan the victim with smart mode, as soon as you tap the scan tool with the victims bio (the scan tool called Karl) the game will crash A very sporadic bug. We know its 2023 and this game was released awhile ago, but PLEASE FIX. This issue ruins what we would describe an immersive experience of being a future detective. APPLES -> VISION PRO: we actually want to play this game on our vision pro when it buy it, the Vision Pro has eye tracking (i use our eyes to make selections) and finger pinching gestures (my forefinger and thumb touch each other) and this is how we interact with apps – this game will be right at home. HERE ARE MY TROUBLESHOOTING ATTEMPTS: – Rebooted our iPad – Closed out the game, then relaunched game – Uninstalled game & Reinstalled the game – Powered down iPad and turned back on iPad.
We cant get past the crime scene. It keeps telling us to go back and talk to the witness. Wasted $3.99.
What a game! We enjoyed this during our Quarantined life now killed time & fun. Pretty Hard and challenging but that made it worth it we want a 2nd part.
Whispers of a Machine is perhaps one of the best adventure games we have played in a while. The gameplay is creative in the way that the decisions alter Veras augmentations. Yes, the graphics may look pixelated, but they appear beautifully hand drawn in our opinion. Kathy Rain was a good game too. Please release more games like this, or even subscriptions/episodes.
Pros: – interesting story with ambitious back-story – cool mix of features to play with as the main character – fun characters to interact with Cons: – some parts are too difficult. We play lots of similar games and this is the first time we had to check the solution online multiple times. And the solutions would have been too complex to figure out. Hints or more balanced difficulty throughout the game would help a lot – some controls are annoying to deal with even on a big iPhone Overall we would recommend it but be prepared to check for some solutions online. We will definitely check out the next games from the team.
Great job! No flaws we could see. A map would have helped. A few things we wanted to ask we couldnt cuz it wasnt in the book. One the best of these types of games we’ve played for awhile.
We loved this game! Its one of the few point and click games that have a good story line, harder to find objects, and is long. The only thing we wish it was is a tad bit longer! It reminds us of a traditional video game youd buy on steam or a console, and we loved that it had that capability.
If you are interested in point and click games, this is an absolutely wonderful gem. Just realized its the same people who made Kathy Rain (also another epic point and click). Voice acting is spot-on and really immerses you in the game. Story is intriguing. Augmentation system is nifty. Puzzles not overly difficult to figure out. Its insane to us that more people havent rated/played this game. Worth every penny, we wouldve payed $10 and been happy. Jason.
This game is excellent. We were immediately swept up into the story and spent a lot of time guessing who the killer was only to be surprised in the end. We played the main character pretty even keeled, but the options are there to play differently. We wish there were more games like this. Very fun and entertaining. About 3-5 days of gameplay depending on your free time.
The graphic is are very old school. We feel we wasted money on this one.
We really enjoyed this game, very immersive. It also has replay value. We usually dont replay a game but this, will be our exception. Everything is top notch about this game. It has a great story and seems to us this game was made with care and attention to all details. Good job!
Easily worth the price, wonderful adventure, long gameplay, and no in app purchases !! Please continue to support the app developers.
First off, thank you for releasing your games on iOS!!! We prefer playing on our iPad to laptop these days. We bought both Kathy Rain and this game and binged on both. We love the art styles of the games and the gameplay. To other lurkers, if you like solving mysteries, these point and click games are worth your while!
We are constantly searching the AppStore for actual point and click adventure games, not the hidden object and arcade games bizarrely classified as adventure. This discovery was so spectacular that we stayed up all night to finish it! The concept that distinguishes Whisper of the Machines from typical adventure games is that there are multiple solutions for the integrated puzzles and ultimately completing the game, guided by your responses to a choice-based narrative and the specific supplementary skills that you acquire. Your heroine is a homicide detective with chemical-based augmentation technology that gives her superhuman capabilities. Smart scanning helps you search for and analyze clues in the scene, like DNA. [NOTE: This is NOT a hidden object game!] You can greatly increase your strength for short periods of time, and you can monitor physiological functions of your witnesses to determine if they are lying. The additional abilities you receive are determined by whether your conversational responses skew towards assertive, analytical, or empathetic. Your role as an investigator definitely draws you into the story, which is richly written and based in a world that survived and rebuilt after an apocalyptic event. Graphics have a retro feel but are not pure pixel. The controls are intuitive and smooth. Gameplay is essentially linear and lasts about 5-6 hours. The somewhat short duration of the game and the absence of a teleportation map/device are our minor complaints. If youre a fan of the same genre, here are our favorites that have been ported to the iPad (in no particular order): – Edna & Harvey series – Broken Sword series – Yesterday series – Enigmatis series – Broken Age – Lost Within – Runaway series – Bik: A Space Adventure – Journey Down series – Cognition series – Syberia series – Hollywood Monsters – In Fear we Trust – Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders – Bertram Fiddle series – Blackwell series – Fran Bow series – Life Is Strange – Return To Grisly Manor – Miss Fisher series – Day of the Tentacle – Deponia – Fetch: A Boy and His Dog – The Whispered Word – Nelly Cootalot and the Fowl Fleet – New York Mysteries series – Paranormal State: Poison Spring – Secret Files series – The Wolf Among Us – Lost Horizon series – Last Express – Gemini Rue – Beneath the Steel Sky – Silent Age.
Very enjoyable and interesting. On the plus side it was so thoughtful and a fresh experience. On the other hand we couldn’t help but think that it could have been better if they didn’t do the branching. Just gave it be one longer game? We didn’t really see the point is the versions of same game. We played through twice and found second time was just zipping through it. We saw two endings and found a third slightly different one on-line. We are ok with that part it’s more the playing through with different abilities that we found to be more of an experiment than a good mechanism.
At the top of what p&c games are all about! You should definitely play it and multiple times to see the different game play styles/choices.
We enjoyed playing this adventure game so much! All of the puzzles were organic and we also loved the augmentation abilities. It really added another layer of gameplay that didnt deter from the story at all. Good characters, though we really wish we got to see more of the backstory between Vera and Alex. It would have made the decision at the end of the game that much more powerful and conflicting. We would play the sequel if one was released! Thank for making this game. Not many out there with this level of detail. Great graphics as well. It was just enough detail to be beautiful, yet it still had that 90s retro look to it as well. We will always continue to support games like this for the rest of our life.
We really enjoyed this game. Its pretty long and challenging without being too hard. The storyline was very interesting and the music was cool.
This is a great game! You wont regret buying it – the voice acting alone makes it worth the price!! It is very fun and you wont want to stop playing to see what happens next !!! Couldnt be happier we believe Im about half way through thats the only bad part cuz we dont want it to end lol.
This isnt a review but since we submitted a support request a month ago and never got a response, Im posting a comment here. We loved Kathy Rain and so far we’ve enjoyed this game. However we hit a bug that crashes the game every time, even after reloading our saved game. (Slight spoiler so stop reading if you havent played yet.) In the junk yard we entered the refrigerator. The game crashes with: Null pointer referenced room_afterFadeIn. Im happy to help troubleshoot further if the developer wants to respond. See SUP-2447.
Im an old school point and click adventure game fan, and though Im happy to see classics like Broken Sword and Day of the Tentacle ported over to iOS, they honestly just dont play as well as they do on the PC. Moving around is a pain, choosing actions is a pain. Whispers surprised us by remaining point and click but streamlining the gaming process beautifully so that youre actually focused on the game and not how cumbersome it is to play. Which is great, because its an engrossing game. Investigating as Vera is a lot of fun, and it does feel like an investigation rather than a spooky thriller, which a lot of detective games try to be. We want to solve mysteries, not tiptoe around fearfully. We just wish the empathetic options (you gain different abilities depending on your responses to people, which gives you completely different ways to solve puzzles) werent quite so… Sappy. Theres a point where you try to determine what a piece of graffiti depicts, and the empathetic option is two flowers hugging. You can be a good people person without stepping right out of Sesame Street, yknow. In any case, definitely worth the purchase!
Just finished this game – highly recommended! Not many point and click adventure games that are 17+. This one has great story, superb voice acting, and good music. Some parts are challenging, but there are enough subtle hints to get you to the next step if you pay attention. We wish the game was much longer because we didnt want it to end! Our only complaint is that the game should save at the end before you get to make a decision so you can reload from there. Would love a sequel with Vera!
YOUR GAME IS AMAZING, its so much fun but there is a problem our save file gets corrupted it says there was a script error but then we cant play our safe file anymore this happens after we leave the recycling center and talk to the kids but after we stop talking and walk away at glitches and crashes when we try to go back and pull it up and it says script error.
We had a great time with this game. Total playtime was probably about 15 hours or so to complete by our estimate. Definitely worth the price in our opinion. We think the difficulty was perfect. We were able to complete it without looking at any hints, although there was definitely a handful of spots which made us have to put take a step back and reassess the situation in the game for an idea of what to do to progress. We think thats where the fun comes from in this game. We highly encourage players not to jump to quickly to look at hints. We promise you that if you think logically and revisit the areas that are open to you that no puzzle was obscure enough to need a hint to pass. Pro tip: You can speed up traveling across the screen to enter a different area by double tapping on the area or door youre trying to enter. Itll teleport your player there instead of waiting for the animation of her walking all the way to the area. Didnt learn that until we were nearly done with the game.
Greatly enjoyed this game and story. Its a bit tough at times, but thats a benefit more than it is a detriment.
Very disappointed that the developers released this for all devices when the game is not even supported on all devices. Resoltutions 16:9 and up such as the iPad Pro have issues with the graphics being out of focus, not sharp, and just doesnt look good overall. Not an enjoyable experience!
How is that the games fault? Its supposed to be a puzzle to figure out on your own – its s point n click, its always been this way. And we have the energize power too and we were able to get past the part your talking about. Id help you out, but rating a game a bad score because you cant figure out a puzzle that is meant to challenge you is irrational. So we guess youll have to figure it out yourself.
We were loving this up until getting hopelessly stuck at Lennarts murder. There is no hint system. All online walkthroughs have other powers that allow them to solve this easily. We have energize, which is apparently useless- it said it retracted the gears, but nothing changed. Pipe is useless. For hours we’ve been trying everything we have on everything there is, to no avail. Too bad Ill have to give up due to a complete lack of help- theres not even a help email on the website.
A really fun little point and click adventure with great replay ability. The writing was fantastic, it has a really interesting conservative vs progressive ideology narrative and you can choose your own adventure (THANK YOU writers for staying neutral and not forcing us to take the leftist path, very refreshing) Overall highly recommended for point and click fans, the puzzles were just hard enough and we throughly enjoyed playing.
Whispers of a machine and Kathy rain are the best cell phone games we’ve ever played . Not only are they fun & challenging . The stories are compelling as well as the characters !
This was dope and fun. Kinda short for our taste but we loved it.
After playing, we noticed Dave Gilberts name in the credits. That would have clued us in that this was going to be a great game and done right. A true traditional mystery point and click. … And that it was. The augmentations are genius. On top of that, the game plays based on what you do and say, so it plays different ways with different clues and objects for different people and thus different results. You could play again and choose differently. Did we mention the augmentations are genius? Youll find out what that means. Theres even interactive action scenes with other characters. This game is a bargain and a must play for traditional point and click lovers.
Fun story, nice mystery, and no encountered bugs or ads. Creative play style and skills too.
Yet another fantastic modern point-and-click along the lines of Wadjet Eye Games. The story is suspenseful and fast-paced, never boring. The characters and world are unique. The moments of humor are welcome in a serious situation. Our only complaint is that a few of the puzzles are laughably absurd, but a quick walkthrough visit fixed everything.
We really liked the storyline of this game, it is very compelling. We did really like the fact that tools you receive throughout the game are based on your choices. We also enjoyed the tools that you do get in the game. For instance, the scanning tool is a very cool concept. Overall it was a great game. Although we had an overall positive experience with this game, we do have a few critiques. We did have a game save issue one time. We had closed the game out once, and when we came back we had lost progress. Also, the controls of the inventory are annoying on an iPhone bc when you try to drag them to interact, the phone backs out of the game to where you can view the current app and all other apps that are open. So you have to tap the game after almost every time you try to drag an inventory item. That is very annoying. We also am not a fan of repeating dialogue or pixel graphics (lower quality graphics) we’ve become spoiled to higher quality graphics with other P&C adventure games we’ve played. If you can get past the things we’ve mentioned, then this is a great game.
This game is a solid point and click with a good story. Some of the mechanics (when its time based) are irritating on mobile just because the ui is so small, it can be hard to click the right spot, so definitely died a few times in those scenes due that. Hah! But, the game was fun and had us thinking about deeper things for sure. The only other bummer is we pegged one of the antagonists from the second we met them; would have liked a bit more of a mystery, but the story is good and well written all the same, even if it was somewhat predictable.
Severely disappointing in contrast with other games of this type. No real challenge or cleverness in the design. Too much focus on gimmicky gadgets & skills. Very repetitive tasks and boring trial & error vs thinking & puzzle aspect. Trying to make a strictly linear game but with only one action to progress in a somewhat open world design like this is a result for disaster. Not even halfway through and already bored. Rarely do we get this bored with games or disappointed enough to write a review.
We love Raw Fury and will get whatever they put out. We am, however, disappointed that this game is not optimized to fit the XRs screen. Also, we’ve noticed this game greatly drains battery (five minutes of gameplay sucked 8% of our battery). Im hoping this also can be fixed.