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Your Future Self

Contortionist Games Developer

Contortionist Games Publisher

2019-03-08 Release

Indie Casual SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 11

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mostly Positive (82 reviews)

http://www.contortionistgames.co.uk/

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Your Future Self Linux Content [187.32 M]

It's released!

Finally! Phew. I worked about 14 hours yesterday trying to get everything finished for release. Hopefully I didn't break anything in the process (but you never know) I've also just published a guide with a detailed breakdown about how the gameplay works. When designing the game, I wanted the gameplay to be a bit of a puzzle that the player had to figure out on their own, but after a lot of playtesting it turns out that many people find it a bit hard to figure out and that's put some people off. Rather than rebuilding the intro and doing a full tutorial, I opted for a community guide instead. It's a bit like an old school instruction book, in a way. Anyway, hope you all enjoy! Let me know if there are any bugs and I'll fix them asap. Thanks, Andy

[ 2019-03-08 12:56:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

You wake up. A disembodied voice tells you that you have been trapped in a time loop with your future self. They have committed a terrible crime in the near future, and - according to this voice - the only way you can escape the loop is to convince your future self of the wrongness of their actions.

It seems you have no choice but to follow their instructions, but that doesn't mean you should believe everything they say. As you progress in your conversation with your future self, it becomes very apparent that something is amiss. Someone is lying to you. The question is: who? And why?

If you want to be free, make sure you figure out the truth.

Think carefully. Think strategically.

...and good luck.

Features

Mind bending, yet personal story: You are stuck in a time loop with your future self, and are told you have to convince them they were wrong for a crime they committed in the near future. What was their crime? Who trapped you in this loop? And, most importantly, how can you escape?
Gameplay mechanics as a puzzle: There is no tutorial. You need to be as convincing as possible when talking to your future self, but figuring out the mechanics of how to achieve this (and figuring out how the time loop affects gameplay) is a puzzle in itself, and an inherent part of the game's challenge.
Unique aesthetics: The game visually harks back to the aesthetics of retro text adventures but repeatedly breaks out of genre norms to shock and surprise.
Atmospheric soundtrack: Varied and memorable chiptune soundtrack. A moody, modern update on 8-bit soundtracks of old.

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and a gripping, suspenseful, emotionally charged narrative that touches on politically important topics such as climate change, refugee crises, and mental illness. It harks back to the aesthetics of text-based adventure games whilst deliberately bending the genre into something unique.

Full soundtrack available here: https://contortionistgames.bandcamp.com/album/your-future-self

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual CoreMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260. ATI Radeon 4870 HD. or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
Storage: 150 MB available space

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