Year Unknown

Essentially just a visual novel with a complex interface. You walk from text terminal to text terminal and read entries and/or responses from the two AI companions that you pick up in the first level. This means that the only real value to judge the game on is the writing, and the writing is a bit too pie-in-the-sky pseudo-trolley-problem for me to take seriously. More or less, one AI went suicidal from living for too long, and the other didn't, and you're supposed to choose between ending the universe (and you, and the AI that doesn't want to die) to make one happy, or not, and make the other one happy. As a philosophical conundrum this is so vapid it barely bears thinking about, but what actually offends me is that this is resolved with, as Yahtzee would call it, an Endingtron 9000 button choice, where you just push one and get one ending or the other. And in the cardinal sin for such endings, the developer did NOT put a checkpoint just before the choice. No, developer, I will not replay the entire sluggish game and click through all those text logs again just to see the other ending. Your writing quality did not endear itself to me enough to go look it up on Youtube, either.…

I'd like to return this game. Not because it's bad or ending is cheap, but just because it's short. But I wont, it's kinda beautiful and atmospheric, and cheap, and we need to support indie-developers.

Brooding soundtrack and atmosphere, worth picking up as a part of the Megastructure Collection when it's on sale.

A really cool experience. A wonderful tragedy in motion. Would recommend.

a cool world, compelling story telling mechanisms

Pretty interesting philosophies, though what your choice actually entailed confused me a little