We are an indie video game company based in Adelaide, Australia.
Learn about us and our first game: the surveillance thriller Need to Know.
Visit Need to Know on Steam
Thanks to our 4451 amazing backers, the Kickstarter campaign for our first game, the surveillance thriller Need to Know reached 468% of its funding goal.
Have a look at our campaign by clicking here.
You can buy the game below, which will get you a Steam key and a DRM-free download of Need to Know to play right now.
(Price is in US$)
Use the BlackSheep System to identify a person’s suspicious activity, and choose an outcome.
Choose whether to use intel and powers outside of work, whether to help others, for financial gain (not, strictly speaking, legal), or even in romantic encounters (not, strictly speaking, moral).
Early Clearance Levels only allow you access to a target’s metadata or browsing history. As you progress, you bore deeper into their lives, with geo-tracking, shopping patterns and more.
If your decisions are accurate and effective (or sometimes just helpful to the Department’s goals), you will be promoted. Higher ranks mean higher-stakes assignments with higher-profile suspects, access to more invasive surveillance, and greater authority.
Each new Clearance Level exposes classified data, much of which will help you with assignments, and in your crusade against (or for) the Department.
The Department doesn’t discriminate in its abuse of privacy, so you’ll encounter people from all economic backgrounds, locations, ages, and cultures. Not every profile is immediately accessible though, and you need to advance further to snoop into the lives of the wealthy, powerful, and truly despicable.
Webdesign, PhotographySurveillance Thriller Sim • Windows, OS X, Linux • Released August 2018
Click here to visit the website for Need to Know.
Need to Know is a surveillance thriller sim that tests your ability and integrity within the shadowy, cutthroat world of a modern intelligence agency - the Department of Liberty.
You must spy on citizens, pick apart their private lives, and determine their threat level. You can also resist these suffocating privacy invasions by aiding underground groups and leaking internal reports to the media. Or, you can just use all of that juicy classified information for your own gain. Your call.
Need to Know emphasises story, and will sculpt the crushing growth of our real-world surveillance society into a meaningful, gripping journey. It critiques the system by passing the uncomfortable (or too comfortable?) mantle of power onto your shoulders, to test which choices you’ll make. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll sweat bullets under the searing blaze of an interrogation lamp.
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Technical Director, Programmer
Creative Director, Writer
Composer and Sound Designer
Monomyth Games
Adelaide, Australia
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