Utterly brilliant.

I love complex, mysterious, choice-driven narrative games. Minds Beneath Us is up there with Pentiment, Roadwarden, I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, et al at the very top of the mountain. The 15 hours of my playthrough went by so damn fast and I was so heavily invested in the characters and the multi-layered story that I played most of it in one sitting despite hellish heat in my computer room.

The final two chapters had a larger number of spelling mistakes that the earlier chapters didn't have ("Chamleon"), but that is literally the only (small) negative I can think of. Even the fact that the game contained quick-time events didn't really bother me, because they were fortunately fair and really easy (I think) to master, so that they wouldn't become a showstopper. I cannot say enough good things about the graphics, the atmosphere, the dystopian cyberpunk mystery story and, most of all, the characters. What beautiful character design from a writing perspective, with side characters and their stories feeling just as real and alive as the main characters.

This is a GOTY contender for me.