Ceiba
Wirion · 2023 · Visual Novel, Transhumanism, Lore-Rich, Story Rich, Text-Based
PC
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About Ceiba
People of the distant future have taken a rule: human lives are too precious to risk for the exploration of deep space. That's why in the atmosphere of an alien unfriendly planet, beneath the wide crown of the space garden «Ailanthus», lives a race of artificial servants - Artifites.
A young Artifite - explorer, Ein, is tormented by a vague longing. He doesn't know when the expedition began, and why it still can't reach its goal. One thing he knows for sure is that since they're stuck here for a while, he should find himself a girl. And he's got just the right one in mind.
Frequent encounters in the wardroom, lunches together with the whole crew... the task seems a piece of cake. But there are three catches. First, the girl is as cold and unfriendly like cosmic ice. The second one, she's obsessed with exploring abandoned alien ruins, hidden beneath the planet's cloud cover. And the third one, the empty ruins have begun to respond to her.
- Studio Wirion's signature sci-fi story continues the tradition, established by the studio's previous project, the visual novel Athanasy (97% positive reviews on Steam);
- Wirion's calling card - the niche «biopunk» genre;
- fully voiced by professional actors from the Dream Cast Team;
- a soundtrack specially made for the game by the duo Synthelligence, describing their genre of their music as «melodic sci-fi»;
- the usage of Ren'Py game engine to the max, including parallax effects, animated backgrounds and facial character animations, fully synchronized with the speech;
- professional artists and designers have created an incredible world, based on plant technology;
- As expected of Wirion's distinctive style, this adult and daring story embraces the ideas, that are based on actual scientific research.
A young Artifite - explorer, Ein, is tormented by a vague longing. He doesn't know when the expedition began, and why it still can't reach its goal. One thing he knows for sure is that since they're stuck here for a while, he should find himself a girl. And he's got just the right one in mind.
Frequent encounters in the wardroom, lunches together with the whole crew... the task seems a piece of cake. But there are three catches. First, the girl is as cold and unfriendly like cosmic ice. The second one, she's obsessed with exploring abandoned alien ruins, hidden beneath the planet's cloud cover. And the third one, the empty ruins have begun to respond to her.
Features:
- Studio Wirion's signature sci-fi story continues the tradition, established by the studio's previous project, the visual novel Athanasy (97% positive reviews on Steam);
- Wirion's calling card - the niche «biopunk» genre;
- fully voiced by professional actors from the Dream Cast Team;
- a soundtrack specially made for the game by the duo Synthelligence, describing their genre of their music as «melodic sci-fi»;
- the usage of Ren'Py game engine to the max, including parallax effects, animated backgrounds and facial character animations, fully synchronized with the speech;
- professional artists and designers have created an incredible world, based on plant technology;
- As expected of Wirion's distinctive style, this adult and daring story embraces the ideas, that are based on actual scientific research.
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What Steam players say
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Ceiba is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This e-book was slapped together with the godawfully bad RenPy Visual Novel/E-Book construction kit, so just like no professional writing took place here, no professional game development took place either, it's just a product of filling out templates in the construction kit. This e-book has a familiar subject... yes, it's a high school anime club dropout fan-fiction from Russia, with garbled translation, and the topic is the authors imaginary girlfriend, who is an astronaut. Cosmonaut, I guess. The author relates his fantasy of his imaginary girlfriend being stuck in a spaceship with him so she has no choice but to talk to him (These e-books always de…4 found this helpful
An amazing game with fantastic art design, an engaging storyline, and beautiful heroines. A big thank you to the developers <32 found this helpful
This game is similar to Wirion's previous visual novel, Athanasy, but not as dark. The story has philosophical themes and some unexpected twists. The girls are lovely. It is kind of short for a VN, but also concise, and doesn't drag on and waste your time. There are some pretty neat Sci-Fi concepts explored in it too. I enjoyed it.1 found this helpful
Потрясающая милая и маленькая история. Рисовка фонов и персонажей радует глаз, космический эмбиент на саундтреке ласкает уши, а лора хватит на целую книгу. 10/10, would play again.
Does she want to fight or som ?
Don't know why I had wishlisted this at some point, especially since I'm not really a visual novel person. While rather short, Ceiba is a very pleasant and captivating experience, especially in its final act. Everyone wearing skintight bodysuits is also very nice I like 👍
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