Need one thing actual miserable to go together with your seasonal affective dysfunction, northern hemisphere pals? Well, have I obtained a recreation for you!
Endless Dark is “an existential horror recreation wherein you’re tasked with holding a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you – solely creaking steel echoes and limitless darkish.”
In it you are a robotic intelligence referred to as The Custodian, a completely self-aware machine whose job is to maintain a travelling colony ship filled with sleeping/frozen passengers going to a brand new planet. You’re additionally the one factor awake, completely alone, cursed to dwell for many years of absolute loneliness and isolation.
Keep your passengers alive the entire time and also you win, slip into depressed, incapable “robo-dementia” and also you lose. It’s a easy recreation with numerous writing—some 350,000 phrases of occasions and crises and harm to repair or fail at. It’s made in order that when you would possibly fail a number of instances you may tease out new threads of the story every time—and even discover new angles after you have overwhelmed the sport.
There are in fact different issues in your little robotic to do. Like tweak its chassis with private touches, and, you recognize, gaze in to the limitless darkish of area.
Endless Dark is absolutely playable with mouse and keyboard, keyboard solely, or gamepad.
You can discover Endless Dark on Steam for $8.