The Tunnels
Maze Digital Services · 2024 · Exploration, Simulation, Interactive Fiction, Political, First-Person
PC
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About The Tunnels
The Tunnels is a procedural maze environment, where everyone loses except grief
This work reflects on the human cost of conflict. The information presented is based on real-time data, aiming to show how statistics can obscure the profound grief behind the numbers, and how we always see information through different lenses.This experience is not intended to entertain, but to provide a space for reflection on the human consequences of conflict, with profound respect for all victims and their families.There is, however, an end to reach in this hallway. In this immersive installation, the viewer evolves through a real and defining political space that most people have only seen through news, screens, and social media. A real non-space that can only be the projection of the viewer, and the developer, is constructed to try to make sense of the inhumane.
After the overwhelming labyrinth of contradicting informations we are all constantly subjected to, what can only be the truth is a mirror showing us what remains of our humanity.
The work is free but you can help the work of the UNWRA on their website.
This work reflects on the human cost of conflict. The information presented is based on real-time data, aiming to show how statistics can obscure the profound grief behind the numbers, and how we always see information through different lenses.This experience is not intended to entertain, but to provide a space for reflection on the human consequences of conflict, with profound respect for all victims and their families.There is, however, an end to reach in this hallway. In this immersive installation, the viewer evolves through a real and defining political space that most people have only seen through news, screens, and social media. A real non-space that can only be the projection of the viewer, and the developer, is constructed to try to make sense of the inhumane.
After the overwhelming labyrinth of contradicting informations we are all constantly subjected to, what can only be the truth is a mirror showing us what remains of our humanity.
The work is free but you can help the work of the UNWRA on their website.
What Steam players say
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✦ AI summary
This game impresses players with its atmospheric presentation, lighting, and music that benefit from headphones, while featuring environmental storytelling through screens and news tickers. However, many players struggle to understand its core message and purpose, finding the experience unclear or unclear in its critique, with some finding the gameplay or conceptual direction unengaging enough to recommend it.
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ehm... good lighting and all, but it's not enough2 found this helpful
kinda decents, music deffa matches, recco using headphones with :3 please do take the times to read the ticker tapes/the news inserted onto the screens :31 found this helpful
Not sure i understood the point that the game tried to make ? At a high level it's a critique against war? but wasn't able to grasp why i had to walk through the tunnels.1 found this helpful
looks good but this is something i would not play.
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