前程似锦 Excellent Expectations
Released Dec 2017
Excellent Expectations is a puzzle adventure game , you would use search engines to discover a story from a stranger's phone .
86% positive · 974 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $2.99
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Evaluation
前程似锦 Excellent Expectations launched on December 21, 2017 as a self-contained puzzle adventure game. Post-launch activity was limited to a Traditional Chinese localization patch in March 2018 — no DLC, no expansions, and no roadmap for additional content were ever announced or released. The developer's news posts from 2019 onward exclusively discuss separate, unrelated games (If I am AI, Dice Capitalism, and most recently For Stella), with no mention of further development or content for 前程似锦. The game appears to have shipped as a finished product and has received no substantive content updates since launch.
Evidence
Store description presents a self-contained puzzle adventure with no mention of DLC, updates, seasons, or future content.
Developer's most recent post promotes a demo update for their upcoming game For Stella, with no mention of 前程似锦.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
内购人生PABL
Achievements
10
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
STORY:
As a person with conscience , you are sick of those greedy disgusting full of sxxt lair mobile game companies .
So you found a phone belonging to a boss of a game company .
You'll find the evidences there and make them pay back for what they have done .
(Obviously there is no English version yet , but for some reasons this story has to be happened in America .)
GAMEPLAY:
What you should do in this game is retrieve APPs and break into them to get information you need from a reset phone , and finally find out what happened in this phone's owner .
FEATURES：
Search engines is the original part of this game . You can't get all the information you need just from APPs . You should abstract the keywords and search in the search engines to get another part of necessary information
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Contact Me：
Sina Weibo@前程似锦EE
QQ：3434552658
As a person with conscience , you are sick of those greedy disgusting full of sxxt lair mobile game companies .
So you found a phone belonging to a boss of a game company .
You'll find the evidences there and make them pay back for what they have done .
(Obviously there is no English version yet , but for some reasons this story has to be happened in America .)
GAMEPLAY:
What you should do in this game is retrieve APPs and break into them to get information you need from a reset phone , and finally find out what happened in this phone's owner .
FEATURES：
Search engines is the original part of this game . You can't get all the information you need just from APPs . You should abstract the keywords and search in the search engines to get another part of necessary information
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Contact Me：
Sina Weibo@前程似锦EE
QQ：3434552658
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Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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