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A Better World

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46%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, replayability
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
56% User Score Based on 34 reviews

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About A Better World

A Better World is a single player action game with historical and science fiction themes. It was developed by ARTE France and was released on November 17, 2025. It received neutral reviews from players.

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56%Audience ScoreBased on 34 reviews
humor6 positive mentions
stability1 negative mentions
  • The game has a smart, original concept focused on time travel and alternate histories, which is engaging and thought-provoking.
  • Writing and humor are well-done, with clever references and a solid narrative that encourages replaying for different endings.
  • The game offers multiple paths and moral dilemmas, providing good replay value and meaningful decision-making.
  • The user interface is clunky, unintuitive, and buggy, causing soft-locks, frustration, and repetitive restarts without easy undo options.
  • The game feels underdeveloped and shallow, with poorly executed mechanics, confusing storylines, and lack of polish such as missing voice acting and bugs.
  • Developers abandoned the game shortly after release with no updates addressing critical issues, leaving it feeling incomplete and neglected.

  • gameplay

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    21% positive mentions, 58% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions

    The gameplay receives mixed feedback, praised for its concept and straightforward mechanics but criticized for feeling underdeveloped, linear, and slow with a heavy focus on dialogue. Some users find the interface and mechanics, especially related to time travel, in need of polish, which hampers overall enjoyment despite the game's strong artistic and narrative elements.

    • “It's much more linear than its predecessor—a necessary compromise to make room for the main story—and the game is easy to play with fairly straightforward mechanics.”
    • “The first time travel assignment serves as a strong introduction to the mechanics and the potential consequences of your actions.”
    • “Overall likely just not my cup of tea, but I do think the controls and mechanics could be improved somewhat.”
    • “I like the concept, but it feels thinly written and underdeveloped, and the mechanics of changing the past need polish.”
    • “Ill leave others to talk about the timeline choices as for me personally they seem fine, however there is a clear problem with the interface and gameplay presented.”
    • “Personally not too interested in continuing the rest of the game because it seems like the developers weren't even interested in polishing the rest of the first 10 minutes of gameplay.”

  • story

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    The story is considered confusing and poorly developed, with outdated presentation and numerous issues in later missions, including a lack of an undo feature that forces players to restart missions. It feels more linear and simplified compared to its original text-based predecessor, which many users found superior. While some found enjoyment in exploring different timelines, the storyline overall fails to convincingly engage, especially in the early missions.

    • “It's much more linear than its predecessor—a necessary compromise to make room for the main story—and the game is easy to play with fairly straightforward mechanics.”
    • “It's sorely needing an option to undo your last decision to minimize having to replay the same missions over and over from the beginning, but I had enough fun exploring the different timelines that it was a minor annoyance at best.”
    • “As other reviewers have mentioned, the original text-based game is much superior. If the creators of this credit the original, why not add a large majority of the options shown there rather than the limited and easily dated missions made?”
    • “The images and overall storyline are confusing and not well established.”
    • “As other reviewers have mentioned, the original text-based game is much superior; if the creators of this credit the original, why not include the majority of the options shown there rather than the limited and easily dated missions made?”
    • “The whole story of the game feels like it was written by high schoolers.”

  • humor

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is well-crafted, often lighthearted and genuinely funny, with memorable voice lines and clever writing that enhance its unique charm. While some jokes or dialogue may be lost in translation, the humor remains a strong, well-delivered element that contributes significantly to the game's distinct personality.

    • “I'm guessing it's more just for fun - because the bit with Gandhi made me laugh.”
    • “Globos's voice lines (well, they're mostly just sounds) can be pretty funny too, especially her quips, cheerful laughs, and lines of disapproval. There's one in particular that made me laugh every time she said it.”
    • “All in all, a really solid game that takes a peculiar idea and makes it funny, really well-written and delivered, with a great hook. It's a passion project with immense soul and effort, definitely standing out as an original title.”

  • graphics

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The graphics are visually polished and narratively engaging with a distinctive "TVA-inspired" style, but the experience is somewhat diminished by the absence of voice lines and deeper world-building.

    • “Narratively engaging and graphically polished.”

  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from stability issues, with a buggy user interface that frequently causes soft locks, requiring players to restart the game.

    • “User interface is buggy, it's pretty easy to get soft locked and have to restart the game.”

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's time-travel mechanic, with its cause-and-effect butterfly consequences ranging from humorous to catastrophic, provides substantial replayability by encouraging players to explore different outcomes and scenarios.

    • “The premise of traveling backwards and forwards in time to change history for better (or, usually, worse) and dealing with the butterfly effect that is the consequences, whether it be jolly absurdities or (literal) apocalyptic calamities, means there's a lot of replay value.”
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A Better World is a action game with historical and science fiction themes. Common tags for A Better World include first-person, retro, futuristic, 3D, alternate history and others.

A Better World is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.

A Better World was released on November 17, 2025.

A Better World was developed by ARTE France.

A Better World has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked A Better World for its humor but disliked it for its gameplay.

A Better World is a single player game.