Need something really sad to go with your seasonal influence, northern hemisphere friends? Well, do I have a game for you!
Endless Dark is “a horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a ship asleep as normal. There are no enemies or NPCs joining the ship with you – just creaking metal echoes and endless darkness.”
In it you are an intelligent robot called The Custodian, a fully self-aware machine whose job is to patrol a colony ship full of sleeping/frozen passengers to a new planet. You are still the only thing that sleeps, all alone, cursed to live many years of loneliness and isolation.
Keep your passengers alive the entire time and you win, slip into depression, incapable of “robo-dementia” and you lose. It is a simple game with a lot of writing – some 350,000 words of events and problems and disasters to fix or fail. It is made so that when you will fail a few times you will tease a new thread of the story every time – or even see new angles after you have beaten the game.
There are other things for your little robot to do. It’s like tweaking its chassis with a personal touch, and, you know, staring at the end of the darkness of the place.
Endless Dark is fully playable with mouse and keyboard, keyboard only, or gamepad.
You can find it Endless Darkness of the Room for $8.
