Need to Know
Release: 2018
Need to Know is a surveillance thriller sim that tests your ability and integrity within the shadowy, cut-throat world of a modern intelligence agency.
As a loyal employee, your job is to spy on people, steal their data, and determine whether they are a threat.
However, you can fight back against privacy invasion, by aiding underground groups and leaking internal reports to the media.
Or, just use all of that delicious classified information for your own gain.
Features
Clearance Levels – Everything - everything - hinges upon your Clearance Level. Impress your superiors, and they will promote you to a higher level, unlocking cooler (and creepier) powers, increasingly classified information, and prestige.
Surveillance – 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 even drone surveillance.
Individual targets – Your Department database is packed with citizens’ profiles, with colourful backgrounds, human flaws, and realistic dilemmas.
Executive powers – As you ascend the ranks, your decisions grow more challenging. Are you willing to order searches, wiretaps, abductions, and smear campaigns? Will you secretly defy the Department, and help your targets?
Your call.
As a loyal employee, your job is to spy on people, steal their data, and determine whether they are a threat.
However, you can fight back against privacy invasion, by aiding underground groups and leaking internal reports to the media.
Or, just use all of that delicious classified information for your own gain.
Features
Clearance Levels – Everything - everything - hinges upon your Clearance Level. Impress your superiors, and they will promote you to a higher level, unlocking cooler (and creepier) powers, increasingly classified information, and prestige.
Surveillance – 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 even drone surveillance.
Individual targets – Your Department database is packed with citizens’ profiles, with colourful backgrounds, human flaws, and realistic dilemmas.
Executive powers – As you ascend the ranks, your decisions grow more challenging. Are you willing to order searches, wiretaps, abductions, and smear campaigns? Will you secretly defy the Department, and help your targets?
Your call.
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