Song of Farca Cyberpunk Private Detective game published by Alawar Games and developed by Wooden Monkeys.
You are Isabelle Song, a hacker/private investigator on house arrest who takes on cases for paying customers both official...and unofficial.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Maurice, Izy's AI companion who helps her on her cases, is this, ranging from being need to told simple things to almost reaching The Singularity.
- Animal Motif: Gyga Roikonen has goats. El Futuro has dolphins.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: Five days later after the end of "Sir Derpalot," Shatze calls Izy up and lets her know one of these days, he will be calling in a favor. It gets called in during "Shatze's Favor" on January 1st.
- Back in the Saddle: "Back Online" is not only a tutorial level for the game, but also Izy being allowed back on the internet after months of not being allowed near a computer. She even details that she had to write in pen and paper that she needed her computer to do her job.
- Beastly Bloodsports: "Sir Derpalot" has Izy find out that Johnny D used the titular dog to fight other eTerriers in dogfights.
- Big Bad Friend: Shatze is not a nice person and his goons cause a lot of trouble in the individual cases. Isaac isn't either, being the one behind the terrorist group brutally murdering rich citizens
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Roikonen Family who practically run Farca are this, especially after "The Roikonen Progeny" has Izy investigating the patriarch Aku's death. Gyga is a pro gamer who does nothing but throw wild drug fueled orgies at the Old Hospital, having lost her mind to the point of believing she's a goat. Samo is a director who believes in True Art Is Incomprehensible who's blown through their father's money and doesn't care if their sister of brother inherit the estate. Aker has a Hair-Trigger Temper, always believing he favored his siblings over him to the point he changed his name to Karsen until he let out a rant on live TV about his family, revealing he was a Roikonen.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: Izy invades people's privacy, blackmails them, threatens their families, commits murder on some routes and at the very least is a Jerkass to everyone including her own friends and family. Her targets on the other hand are unapologetically vile people whose crimes include serial murder, terrorism, weapons dealing, blackmail, revenge porn, and dragging unsuspecting people into drug-fueled orgies.
- Blackmail Backfire: "Privacy is Dead" starts off with a blackmailer calling in for the episode and Izy's future girlfriend, Jessica DeLapine, to drop out of the movie she's making or they'll expose her past as a drug mule for the Serbian Mafia and that she's done porno. Not only does Jessica end up publicly coming clean about her past, but Izy can do this to the blackmailer, Mary Jensen as well. She can either report her to Fazih to deal with the problem legally, or have Shatze make her disappear.
- Body Horror: Cybernetic implants are only available if you're signed on with a corporate job or with the military, but once you're released, they're surgically removed, and the more implants someone has, the more painful someone has it to the point it can be an utter death sentence. "Martyr's Flesh" has some graphic details of the first victim having had his implants torn out, as well as his leg. Simon Krasinski is also killed for his implant, which involves his heart.
- But Thou Must!: Regardless if Izy and Jessica are still together or break up after "A Way Out," she ends up being killed in a car bombing.
- The Caper: "Shatze's Favor" is one of these, though it's more along the lines of a corps run in Shadowrun with fighting off security teams and hacking through layers of security inside and out.
- Career Resurrection: This happens in-universe to Jessica after "Privacy is Dead," with her shows being sold out in advance.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Aker Roikonen is this, his latest recipe involving a new species of toxic mushroom that has poison that's stronger than the fugu fishnote .
- Creator Breakdown: In-universe, Boris Samar, an anti-corporate movie director, had this happen to him after his daughter's death that his last movie became a Creator Killer. When he's resurfaced, he's now become the very opposite by starring in a commercial supporting them.
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Shatze smokes these whenever he's on call with Izy.
- The Dreaded: Shatze is this to everyone who knows him both personally and from rumors. Simon tries to tell Izy to back away the moment she brings his name up to him.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Joe, the REAL Bloody Lighthouse Killer, may have had a plan to go only after the elite upper crust of Farca, but once his own cult got sloppy with the executions and threaten to kill children as well, he starts helping out.
- Everything Is Online: With rare exception, Izy can establish a wi-fi connection to any location, anywhere.
- Eye Scream: "Martyr's Flesh" has Nikita Freischuetz who, after her tour of duty, was required to give up her eye implants. It's why she's The Voice when Izy calls her. She is getting state sanctioned eye implants however. During Peter Azalea's streamed rant in the El Futuro boardroom, he kills an executive by pushing his thumbs through his eyes
- Game-Breaking Bug: More like GPU-melting bug. The game was making gpus run at higher framerates than it should to the point it was heating up computers to the point of nearly frying computers up. The devs quickly patched it up so that it's capped at 60fps.
- Gamer Chick: Izy is a gamer girl, and one of her choices in "Back Online" is that she spent all day playing video games. Her New Years date with Jessica is spent playing games.
- Golden Ending: If you reunite Sir Derpalot with her family in the "Sir Derpalot" case and make an effort to keep the family together throughout the game, things might not end well for Izy, but they'll go better for the family you helped. Sticking around after the credits also reveals that Jessica may be alive after all.
- Glamour Failure: "On the Edge" has this mixed with Special Effects Failure to give The Reveal on just who GreeNet is: Isaac DeOrce, who is now at the top of Izy's personal shitlist for murdering her girlfriend.
- Gratuitous Russian: At the end of "The Gift," Maurice slips into this.Maurice: Query?
Izy: I have the gift.
Maurice: Конечно Мадам!
Izy: Huh?
Maurice: Was that not appropriate?
Izy: What was that?
Maurice: I tracked it to the voice data from the WARTOMSK game. The multiplayer game you've been playing for 679 hours.
Izy: Just send the thing already. - Guide Dang It!: Quite a few things can require a guide, like finding the collectibles.
- "Privacy is Dead" requires talking to the Blackmailer to meet online instead of showing them evidence.
- "Shatze's Favor" involves having to say the right things to get not only Solomon, but Alexa to get through the heist.
- Hacking Minigame: Izy goes for the "brute force" style of hacking which involves picking out themed words (for example zebra, elephant) and picking out which themed animal is the password. She has three tries to get it right or it resets to a new theme.
- Hollywood Hacking: The game runs on this, allowing Izy to hack cameras, drones and bug bots.
- I Have Your Wife: In "Sir Derpalot," Simon Krasinski won't make a move on Johnny D cause he has Simon's daughter. It then turns out that was a lie after Shatze reveals that the address Izy found out was really Johnny D's mother's house, and Simon killed both of them.
- The Internet Is for Porn: In "Back Online," one of the answers Izy can give Isaac about what she did after getting back online is "Porn, of course."
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The reason Izy has been on house arrest is she punched a crooked immigration officer she put in jail in the face while in court.
- One-Man Army: "Martyr's Flesh" shows that Peter Azalea is this, especially considering after his service, he was made to give up his combat implants and was practically at death's door. By the time Izy catches up to him, he's left a trail of bodies left and right, including Simon Krasinski. Even Shatze's own hit squad are given a Curbstomp Battle.
- The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The achievement, "Old Schooled," lampshades it in the text.It's always Swordfish.
- Riches to Rags: "Rotten Fruits" has this happen to whichever Roikonen Izy accuses of being the one to have murdered their father. Samo goes from prima dona director to having to make TV ads to make ends meet.
- Samus Is a Girl: "It's Dark In Here" involves this twist involving the identity of Ace Fiery. They're Riona Ericson, the former wife of Carl Ericson. Even being rendered into an AI doesn't plan on stopping her from being Ace Fiery again.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: "Rotten Fruits" has Samo pull this when their siblings end up dead from the Bloody Lighthouse murders.
- Serial Killer: "Martyr's Flesh" has Izy chasing down an implant hating special-ops soldier as a favor to Shatze. "Rotten Fruits" has her investigating the murder of the Roikonens by a serial killer who stages his corpses as lighthouses.
- Shame If Something Happened: "Shatze's Favor" has him threaten this to Izy to do his favor by saying he'll find her family in the United States, then hurt Jessica's career in a way that leaves her unharmed. He'll fail, then he'll have to arrange an accident.
- Team Pet: Isabelle has a two-legged dog, Scooter, who has only his two front legs while using wheels for the hind legs.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Farca is definitely European, but it's never shown WHERE in Europe it is.
