Alt-Frequencies is a unique, sci-fi audio game in which you record clips from radio stations and send them to other stations in order to progress the story. A time loop is being voted on, the government is lying, and not everyone is happy about it.

Official Description:

What happens when everyone is stuck in the same time loop, without knowing?

Alt-Frequencies is an audio mystery game where you use the airwaves to open the world’s eyes to the truth. Record, rewind time and broadcast snippets of radio shows to expose radio hosts, conspiracy theorists, politicians, underground activists – and a dog.

By redistributing information, you change what happens in the next 3 minute time loop and impact both news cycles and the lives of the people behind them.

Listen as their personal stories evolve, in a world that seems to stand still.

Long Review:

This is such a unique little game! I’ve never come across this kinda gameplay before. It’s an all audio game, and it’s like you’re listening to a radio and can change between a few stations, and there’s a bit of basic puzzle solving because you have to take audio clips from one station and send them to another in order to progress the story.

If you just want to rush through every “puzzle” to finish as fast as possible, this probably isn’t the game for you. Half the fun comes from listening to the radio stations. The politics and lore about the world and time loop stuff. The ridiculous antics of the silly and ranty radio hosts. The kickass songs. (“Disorder” is especially good!) That’s all part of it. And there are two slightly different endings and a couple other choices you can make that change some things that happen in the world or to the radio hosts, so it’s worth listening to some stations again after going back and trying different choices.

And the voice acting is great! It actually sounds like listening to a radio.

You can also mess around and do things that aren’t strictly about the main story. You can look at the achievements for hints (or use a guide). Some of them are entertaining.

The only real complaint I can make is that this game needs a back skip button, not just forward skip. Because you have to record sound clips, and it’s fine if you’re looking at the screen and are a fast reader. But if you’re blind (since this is a blind accessible game) or a slow reader, you won’t realize it’s the clip you need until it’s too late to record it. Then you’ll have to wait for it to come around again, and you might miss it again because you don’t remember what the beginning of the clip was. It was so frustrating when I tried to play without looking that I gave up and played later once my health problems allowed me to look.

It took me three hours to do everything, including all the achievements. (My time on Steam is longer because I started, stopped, then started over again when I went back to the game.)

I got this on Steam on sale for $3.19.

Overall, this was a fun game with unique gameplay!

Short Review:

– All audio game (blind accessible)
– Listening to the radio stations is fun
– Great voice acting
– Some great songs
– No back button is frustrating
– Overall, fun and unique!

Accessibility:

(May not include everything)
– Accessible for blind players and screen reader users. (I think it might automatically offer screen reader mode the first time you open the game but can’t remember, sorry.) Also, there’s the no back button issue I mentioned above, which is frustrating but still playable.
– Accessible for deaf players. All the audio is also in text, and you can turn on extra captions that include other sounds or important context.
– Can play with either keyboard, controller, or mouse.

More Info:

Steam // itch.io // Game Site