Spain-based developers Deconstructeam (Gods Will Be Watching) have announced their next game – The Red Strings Club.

The game is described as a manipulative experience where you work as a bartender in a cyberpunk-themed, near-future dystopia. Players will attempt to stop the Supercontinent Ltd corporation from their bid at eliminating depression, anger, and fear from society – via a system that sounds like brainwashing.

Featured above, you can view the game’s debut trailer. Here are the first screenshots:

To combat this, the player must mix drinks to manipulate the emotions of your patrons, as well as squeeze any possible information out of them. You can even bypass security by hacking with your phone, build genetic implants to stuff into executives and change their personalities, and hopefully save the world.

Here’s a rundown on the game:

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

The professed altruistic corporation Supercontinent Ltd is on the verge of releasing Social Psyche Welfare: a system that will eliminate depression, anger and fear from society. However, the bartender of a clandestine club and a freelance hacker don’t regard this evolution as an improvement but as brainwashing. Alongside unwitting company employees and a rogue empathy android, the duo will pull all the strings they can to bring down this scheme.

Key Features:

• Cyberpunk Thriller Narrative
  Uncover a mysterious corporate program that promises a blissful existence while debating what does happiness means and what lengths are permissible to obtain it.
• Psychological Bartending
  Read your customer’s’ mood and mix the perfect cocktail to manipulate the client’s emotions in order to gather the information you want and progress your agenda of stopping Supercontinent’s plans.
• Genetic Implant Pottery
  Design genetic implants at a high-tech lathe to change the attitude and direction of the corporation’s most influential executives.
• Vocal Corporate Espionage
  Assume the voice of important figures in the Social Psyche Welfare project and play their own motivations against each other over the phone to uncloak their plans.

A release date is set for sometime in January of next year. For now, you can view the Red Strings Club Steam page here.