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About the game

One Spirit is a coming-of-age visual novel set in an alternate timeline where the Cold War drags on into the 21st century. Exploring various political, cultural and philosophical themes, the game presents an engaging, thought-provoking thriller through the eyes of its everyday characters, their struggles and hopes.

In 2003, the Iron Curtain stands tall. The superpowers of the new age wage a silent war through the means of information, economy, culture and proxy. As the Cold War slows to a crawl, the Republic of Sysica, a Western satellite state in Eastern Europe, finds itself on the verge of political death as violence, misery and war loom over its head.

One Spirit follows Yuri Danilin, an 18-year-old young man disenchanted with life, as he returns to his modest hometown in Nevilyovsk, Eastern Sysica. Having failed in his studies at the capital, he reunites with his sister knowing their time apart has changed both permanently. When news of a known local activist disappearing spread through the town, Yuri soon finds himself at the center of a dangerous game of truths.

KEY FEATURES

• Uncover a deep and engaging story, set in an original world where the Iron Curtain hasn't fallen, inspired by real events and reflections on them: experience the bleak feel of a war too long fought.
  
• See the world through the eyes of an alienated youth — casual but complex personalities set in a path of self-discovery and self-affirmation in a world that has robbed them of a future.
  
• Delve into six different subplots branching from the main story.
  
• Every subplot has a unique dynamic you engage with by making choices, efforts and sacrifices. Subplots develop a wide variety of topics stemming from Yuri's fatal years of 2003 and 2004, from the intimacies of friendship to the secrecies of Sysica's ideological underground.
  
• Decide carefully how to spend your time in Nevilyovsk: days are a limited resource. Your priorities and preferences will increasingly mark your journey.
  
• Enjoy high choice responsiveness, as the game's slightest details react to your smallest choices.
  
• Explore over 30 different environments to reveal new details, points of view and events.
  
• Take part in a philosophical journey about human history, society, struggle and life, with roots in contemporary critical theory, psychoanalysis and existentialism, among other similar and dissident traditions.
  
• Dive into this grey world through a high-quality art style that evokes the melancholic, nostalgic feel of post-socialist Sysica.
  
• Explore hours upon hours of worldbuilding detail: a unique Slavic theme, a constructed language, a simulated history and a culture imagined from the ground up.

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