‘Unusual Aeons’ Converses Over Surreal Early-Web Hellscapes

Unusual Aeons has a chat together with your information out of Hell, and should you can discuss your method by means of a number of weird rituals, you may take your home among the many dwelling once more.

This recreation takes you to an underworld that appears to have been born from early 3D video games and shorts, as if I had been trapped in an abyss of early 90’s youth tv. Fortunately, you’ve got a little bit of firm right here to remind you that your followers have been calling out for you. There’s not as a lot of them as there was, however there’s sufficient to attract you from this world you’ve been banished to. To be able to observe that decision, you’ll want to talk the fitting phrases together with your information. It’s important to converse your self again into existence, in a way, by means of fixing verbal riddles and discovering what your cryptic information wants of you.

There’s at all times an overbearing sense of dread on this getting old cyber hell. The world feels prefer it was full of the guarantees of a beautiful future, however has been left, perpetually pristine however empty of humanity. Your information speaks of issues that don’t make a substantial amount of sense, and sees sides of you and your actuality that confuse and discomfort. It felt prefer it was talking in disturbing magical tongues, the phrases carrying that means however the sentences weaving a sinister tapestry over actuality. You possibly can say what you prefer to it at instances, however there’s at all times this sense that merely speaking with this factor is unsuitable. It’s such as you’re making one thing occur that shouldn’t. You’re agreeing to a contract you don’t undertstand.

Unusual Aeons is a surreal expertise, and one whose emotions have caught with me since taking part in it. I really feel I understood what occurred, however one thing in regards to the phrases the information chooses and the character of the world looks like I’ve opened a door to one thing I shouldn’t have.



Unusual Aeons is offered now on itch.io and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been overlaying indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games will be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.