Dear followers, Soul Tolerance demo is now available as part of the Steam Next Fest! Download it for free, here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820430/Soul_Tolerance/ And spread the news all around! We need to grow the wishlists! Also, since we truly appreciate our community's feedback, feel free to post a discussion in the Steam community with your hints/bugs, or join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/DCWJtn37 and discuss directly with the team how we can improve the game.
So what's the status of Soul Tolerance development? We are nearly done with the Chapter 1: PROLOGUE, which is what we could deliver with our Kickstarter funds. We are just finalizing the combats, but everything else (besides consoles porting) is done and ready for launch! However, we are trying to close a deal with an important publisher, who can support our development and allow us to release at once all the 5 chapters we have in mind. We hope to sign an agreement asap, but those things take time. So we'll wait a few more months, and if we are unable to close a deal, we'll self publish the Prologue. So, please, just a few more months of patience, and in the meantime please have fun with the demo! And don't forget to leave us your feedback. We truly count on your suggestions! Take care, Nicola chaosmonger studio

[ 2023-02-06 18:10:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

In this Asimovian tale, discover a rich neon-noir city-scape through the eyes of a robot-detective as you investigate the inner workings of an A.I. dominated world. Speak with bots of all levels of society, from lowly robo-cleaners to the bureaucracy of The Encrypted class and even techno-spiritual monks in your search for which intelligence dared commit the crime of consciousness and break the Soul Tolerance limit.

KEY FEATURES

🤖 - Highly detailed Voxel Art.
🔍 - Investigative Adventure in an Open World.
🌆 - Rich Sci-Fi Setting and Lore to Explore.
💬 - Tons of Characters and Dialogues.
🎹 - Original Music and Sound Design.




STORYLINE

Hokkaido, Japan, 2214. A hundred and thirty years ago, humanity became extinct. For the past century, an advanced, omniscient, and ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI) has controlled Earth. This deity of silicon and cypher has turned the planet into its own playground.
Mechanical beings gifted with less-advanced AI populate the leavings of man, inhabiting and improving upon the empty husks of humanity’s decay. Their routines exist for the amusement of the Divine Mother of all AI, their daily lives a simulation of mankind's most lasting impulses. While aware of Mother, none of them know where she’s located; some even doubt her existence.
Guided by the algorithms that regulate their lives, they get up in the morning and study, work, suffer, rejoice, smile, reminisce… And question themselves.



These robots live in a world which hasn’t changed much since humanity’s final days. They coexist with billions of bacteria, plants, insects, and fungi. But nothing more complex than this. To ensure that consciousness never threatens the planet again, the Divine AI enforces a limit to self-awareness. Any life found exceeding this threshold is ordered annihilated. This protocol is better known as… SOUL TOLERANCE.
This story begins one evening in October. Unit-12, a droid-detective employed by an independent agency, is sent to the city of Sapporo to investigate an anomaly: a mysterious source in Hokkaido has broken the limits of Soul Tolerance. Analysis predicts that this is most likely a system bug or a data collection error. Having arrived in the city suburbs via capsule, Unit-12 embarks upon an investigation which will lead him to discoveries that his consciousness could have never conceived.