Can you feel affection, admiration or even guilt for someone who is just data?
In upcoming sci-fi, narrative-driven existential adventure game Alone With You you’ll figure out what it means to be alive and contemplate the kind of relationship you can have with artificial intelligence.
After releasing last year on PlayStation 4 and Vita to critical praise, Benjamin Rivers Inc. will bring Alone With You to PC via Steam on February 9 for $9.99 USD. At its core Alone With You takes a subtle, mature approach to relationships and couples it with narrative-driven, sci-fi adventure gameplay that varies upon a player’s actions each day and improvised conversations with the holographic simulations of the deceased colonists.
DESCRIPTION
You’re the sole survivor of a doomed space colony, trying to discover the fates of more than two-dozen colonists and escape the lonely planet before it implodes. Accompanied by the colony’s troubled AI and holographic simulations of the deceased colonists, you reveal clues, solve puzzles and forge lasting relationships with self-aware artificial intelligence to uncover
the secrets of their interwoven lives. Can you feel affection, admiration or even guilt for someone who is just data? Alone With You takes a subtle, mature approach to relationships and couples it with narrative-driven, sci-fi adventure gameplay that varies upon your actions
for an experience you’re unlikely to forget.
GAMEPLAY OUTLINE
Players embark on daily missions, scanning objects, solving puzzles and looking for items they need to drive the story forward to complete their mission goals. While exploring and
completing missions, players chat with their ever-present AI companion via an integrated conversation system. Upon returning from a mission, players communicate with one of
the four holographic companions in a one-to-one conversation scene—depending on what players discovered during their mission that day, they’ll have access to more dialogue options, letting them explore the people they find most interesting in greater detail. As well, the hologram companions pay attention to the choices that players make—depending on how players respond to their companion that night, different or expanded dialogue options become available in later discussions. Conversations at night feed into the narrative of the people involved and the game-world in general, adding further depth and detail to the story that players unravel.
FEATURES
• Can Holograms Be Alive? – What makes someone alive? Do they need a physical body
or the power to be self-aware? The more you get to know the colonists’ holograms and
your AI companion, the more you’ll question the nature of humanity itself.
• Forge New Relationships – Develop long-lasting relationships with four of the colonists’
holograms, and get to know them intimately in this adventure-style game. Help your
companions realize their destinies through a unique, natural social system.
• Narrative-driven Adventure – A personal, emotional, player-driven narrative that’s
inclusive to everybody. Multiple endings and branching conversations let you explore new
perspectives with each playthrough.
• A Vast World to Explore – A day-by-day, mission-based structure that lets you play at
your own pace and partake in more than a dozen missions.
• Thrilling Musical Score – An original, stunning musical score by Ivor Stines features
energizing and atmospheric tracks.
