Review | Game review: The Low Road – corporate espionage adventure where what should be the worst part turns out to be the best
In the role of Noomi, an ambitious new agent at L.I.E.S., players work their way from squeezing information out of people on the phone to breaking and entering in this puzzler turned point-and-click adventure
XGen Studios
3 stars
Corporate espionage and capitalistic one-upmanship might not sound as exciting a subject for a video game as the cutthroat world of international super spies, but here’s The Low Road to prove us wrong – or at least, it starts off that way.
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Set in the mid-1970s, the game (available on PC) sees players take on the role of Noomi, a new agent working for corporate espionage company L.I.E.S. (no beating around the bush here). She’s at the bottom of the ladder, tasked with boring desk work, and your job is to call people up and get them to leak information.