Neo Cab

Neo Cab is a smart visual novel that looks forward, but also feels very current.

Neo Can is ambitious and thoughtful, but it sometimes overshoots into something too bleak.

Neo Cab has a fun gameplay loop, but the customers you pick up are the stars of the show, making it a memorable journey that examines what it means to be human

Neo Cab is certainly strongly anti-corporate. I already agree with that, so I don’t know if Neo Cab has the power to change minds. But it does excel at capturing how messy things are becoming. How it can be difficult to know what the right thing to do even is. How some people have more breathing room to be ‘good’ than others.

Yet, while I had issues with Neo Cab, I will admit that it's worth the fare. It perhaps didn't set my world on fire, nor do I think it's going to climb atop anyone's list of favorite games this year, but it's at least a nice ride while it lasts.

Neo Cab has its fair share of awkward encounters as you explore the futuristic city of Los Ojos, but more often than not, these will develop into genuinely meaningful conversations that - despite the game’s limited graphical capabilities - make its citizens feel real.

As it stands, it's getting a middling driver rating from me.

Neo Cab is exactly how you would expect it to be, with a little extra that makes it really noteworthy, at least for fans of graphic adventures and/or futuristic themes. The Feelgrid is something really new in the genre (which is not so easy nowadays) that makes it different from the other titles like that.

Neo Cab is a narrative game that introduces us into the skin of a taxi driver in a not-so-future dystopia, where existential problems and reflections will envolve us one by one and make us want to continue to stick to the screen with the little stories of the secondary characters that we will meet. Perhaps the main story falls short of these sub-stories, but overall it is a remarkable game and recommended for lovers of this type of games.

Neo Cab presents a solid discussion and encourages conversation with ourselves and technology.