Virtue and a Sledgehammer review – a haunting sci-fi drama about breaking walls, AI faces, and your heart

Rock Paper Shotgun reviews Virtue and a Sledgehammer, calling it a haunting sci-fi narrative exploration game that lingers long after the final swing. Players wield a sledgehammer as Pratelle, smashing walls and android copies in her childhood hometown to unlock non-chronological flashbacks that explain her rage through family trauma. The review notes that the slow, deliberate swings add both timing-based challenge and emotional weight, and that the game is explicitly anti-prejudice, anti-ambivalence and anti-AI.