FACEMINER for Mac

FACEMINER, developed by Wristwork, is a simulation game that explores data processing and ethical decision-making. This title focuses on managing an automated system that scans, categorizes, and evaluates facial data. The gameplay revolves around sorting and analyzing vast amounts of visual information while navigating a narrative filled with moral dilemmas. 

As you progress, you encounter increasingly complex datasets, requiring strategic choices that influence the story's direction. FACEMINER blends simulation mechanics with incremental management elements, offering a unique experience centered on digital surveillance and information control. It's like bureaucratic processing found in Papers, Please, but focusing on faces, not borders.

Process and decide

FACEMINER presents you with a continuously updating feed of facial data, which must be processed according to evolving criteria. It introduces tools for sorting, tagging, and categorizing images while incorporating an overarching storyline about ethical considerations in data collection. You balance efficiency with moral choices, determining how information is used and whether to comply with external demands or resist manipulative influences.

The interface is designed to simplify data evaluation, with an emphasis on pattern recognition and decision-making. Progression is tied to the accumulation of processed data, unlocking new mechanics and narrative developments. Over time, you face increasingly difficult scenarios that challenge your approach to automation, privacy, and ethics — though, it is focused on narrative rather than high-paced action. Each decision you make directly affectsimpacts these challenges and the overall simulation.

Its structure supports passive and active playstyles, allowing you to focus on optimization or immerse yourself in its thought-provoking storyline. While its mechanics involve data categorization and incremental progression, the real depth comes from the ethical dilemmas that shape your role in the system. The game's blend of narrative elements and management simulation creates a playstyle outside traditional puzzle genres.

Data and decisions

Though it is focused on narrative rather than high-paced action, FACEMINER offers a unique simulation centered on data processing and ethical dilemmas, diverging from conventional puzzle formats. With its evolving mechanics and strong narrative focus, it challenges you to navigate complex decisions while managing an automated system. It explores digital ethics, surveillance themes, and incremental management, raising thought-provoking questions about the role of data in society.

• Fix for a few different bugs with the audio
• Fixed bug where reactors were appearing twice in some endless mode sessions
• Fix for the 'final rank' not triggering in endless mode
• Fix where opening the logstream at the end of the game would cause some sessions to crash
• Add error catching to the manager graph hovering
• Changed kWh -> kW, MWh -> MW, etc