Proteus
Ed Key and David Kanaga · 2013 · Exploration, Walking Simulator, Relaxing, Indie, Casual
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About Proteus
✦ AI summary
Explore dreamlike procedurally-generated islands in first-person where your presence shapes a dynamic, ambient soundtrack by David Kanaga and the world around you responds to your curiosity. With no text or combat, just meditative discovery among magical creatures and ruins, Proteus rewards patient observation in a strikingly beautiful blend of 8-bit aesthetics and modernist art.
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it. The procedurally generated islands are home to creatures natural and imagined, tranquil valleys and ruins with magical properties.
Key Features:
- Meditative play: the responsive world and lack of any text or hints distils an essence of curious, investigative play, and rewards patience and immersion.
- Dynamic soundtrack composed by award-winning musician David Kanaga follows the mood of the world and will appeal to fans of Boards of Canada, Brian Eno.
- A distinctive 2D-but-3D graphical style with wild shifting palettes that sits somewhere between 8-bit videogames and early 20th century modernist painting.
- Islands are uniquely generated every time, and although it's theoretically possible to see everything in one playthrough, no-one ever does.
- Built-in "postcard" function encodes world data into each screenshot, allowing islands and discoveries to be saved and shared.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
highkey chill
this game might actually just be haunted, I have the weirdest crashes and general technical issues with it and it's gameplay and vibes make it like, the perfect candidate imo, 10/10
Maybe this hit me in the best time of my life for it, but this game has become an instant classic for me. I remember when this came out, but only started playing it now, and my goodness I'm better for it. I've never had a game this instantly and effortlessly evoke the sublime wanderlust that I feel when I'm birdwatching, watching meteor showers, or just wandering through the woods. Fully recommend, especially if you miss being able to do those as much in the real world as you once could
A story of seasons or interactive wallpaper. What you get out of Proteus depends entirely on how much you enjoy an immersive visual/audio experience without any gameplay. I certainly don't regret getting it in a dirt cheap Humble Bundle more than a decade ago.
OK, so I did 2 seasons, then one night did the ritual that summons a guy, chased him to the big tree, and found the fox a few times, but then it stopped appearing. i went to try and change to the next season, but the game threw an exception and crashed.
This game allows me to enter thetastate (creative mode) mentally, it also allows me to think when i have an obstacle / dilemma in life, this game takes the edge off and allows me to think freely with the little music in the background, depending on which season you're in, and your preference. Extremely good game for children for when you have your nieces and nephews, it allows them to explore without fearing anything. Certain seasons and music also allows you to reflect on your behavior and past, I think Ed Key and David Kanaga created an absolute masterpiece, this game is deeper than what alot of people would think. Overall: Allows you free space to think. Allows you to reflect on past or current situations in life Gets you in Creative mode ( thetastate ) specially if you're Stoned. Good for children of all ages. Highly Highly recommend for people with deep thought. This will assist you. Also don't mind my gamehours on this account, i played this game when i was way younger on my main account.
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