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Gamedec — Definitive Edition: a cyberpunk detective story driven by your choices
Gamedec is an isometric narrative RPG from Polish studio Anshar Studios, released in September 2021. It's set in 22nd-century Warsaw — a grim cyberpunk metropolis where people spend more time in virtual worlds than in reality. You play a Gamedec: a private detective who specialises in crimes that take place inside those virtual worlds. Someone is stuck in a simulation, someone stole another person's identity, someone wiped their own memory — and it's on you to untangle it all.
A world where the virtual matters more than the real
Gamedec's setting is dense, carefully built cyberpunk. Future Warsaw is split between those who can afford a life in lavish virtual worlds and those left at the bottom. Every case drops you into a new virtual world with its own rules, aesthetic and inhabitants — from a farming idyll hiding a dark underside to wholly alien digital spaces. The game delivers its lore not through lectures but through people, their motives and their lies — it's up to you to decide who to trust.
A game with zero combat
The defining trait of Gamedec is that there's no fighting, shooting or weapon upgrading at all. You crack cases through conversation, observation and logic. You question witnesses, spot inconsistencies, assemble clues in your deduction panel and reach conclusions yourself — the game never highlights the "correct" answer. Based on what you gather you make a decision, and it genuinely shapes the story: your conclusions define your character's personality and steer the plot toward one of many endings. Progression is narrative too — your Gamedec develops professions and traits depending on how you handle investigations, not on enemies defeated.
What's in the Definitive Edition
You're buying the Definitive Edition — the complete, final version of the game. It contains the base Gamedec plus everything added in the major 2022 update:
- a new virtual world inspired by the action RPG Seven: The Days Long Gone;
- a standalone case with a Cthulhu-flavoured twist;
- new characters and expanded dialogue;
- True Detective mode — no reloading a save to redo your choices, for players who want to live with the consequences;
- the digital soundtrack and art book bundled in.
There's nothing extra to purchase — this is the finished game with all the added content.
True Detective mode and replay value
The Definitive Edition's True Detective mode changes the rules: you can't roll a choice back by loading a save. Get a conclusion wrong and you live with it for the rest of the case. It turns Gamedec from a "try every option" game into an honest detective experience where every decision truly carries weight. Even without that mode the game is replayable: cases can be investigated along different paths, you can build your Gamedec's character in different ways and arrive at distinct endings. A single playthrough runs a few evenings, and many players come back for the alternative branches and finales.
How you'll receive Gamedec
We deliver the game as a Steam gift via a bot. At checkout you provide your Steam friend invite link and your account region. The bot then adds itself to your friends, sends the gift (usually within a couple of minutes) and leaves once it's delivered — you don't need to accept anything by hand. Steam Guard is not required.
The important bit about region and library
For Steam to accept the gift, your account region must match the gift region, and the game must not already be in your library — Steam simply won't let you accept a gift for a game you already own. If the bot couldn't add you, it's usually because friend requests are disabled or the link is outdated: check your privacy settings and send a fresh link.
Who Gamedec is for
If you enjoy text-forward stories, moral dilemmas and branching plots, Gamedec is well worth a look. In spirit it sits close to narrative detective games like Disco Elysium and the bleak cyberpunk aesthetic of Cyberpunk 2077. And if the isometric cyberpunk setting is what hooks you, take a look at The Ascent too. Gamedec is the calmer, more thoughtful one: less action, more choices you'll answer for later.