CANDLE DARK

“It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence.” 

- Carl Sagan,  The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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The world ended. A supernatural Reckoning tore open borders to other dimensions flooding ours with ghosts, monsters, demons and entities stranger still. Those that were not preyed upon by the horrors, fell instead to billowing clouds of Miasma that psychically corrupted to the touch. Over half the world lies covered in its strange unformed haze. From orbit, stranded astronauts saw fewer and fewer lights as the world grew quieter matching the  chorus of silence of the cosmos around it.

Yet the end was refused. Not only did mortal beings fight back, many among them seized upon an opportunity. The disruption of supernatural elements to existing markets was quickly co-opted by industry and it wasn't long before the rise of the Nekrocorps through profits generated by operating on the border between the material and incorporeal: reclaimed property, occult technologies, postlife healthcare and most profitable of all: soulbound debt. All these and more shaped the post-Reckoning society in one that is more strange and brutal than the one we know.

You are AE-4Q248 "Sin-Eater", the latest in a series of Automated Exorcists being deployed into Miasma filled zones. A magically enhanced jar brain in powered armor, you must turn your Memories into weapons to engage in psychic combat against Ghosts to clear the area for human habitation. You have hundreds of years of debt to the corp that reanimated you so you better get to work if you want any shot at restoring your body. At least you need not worry about dying on the job anymore. That will now be an everyday occurrence.

You were someone before. Try not to forget that. Even as the world demands you be inhuman.

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Controls

• Turn Left - Q / Left Arrow / Click (Interface)
• Move Forward - W / Up Arrow / Click (Interface)
• Turn Right - E / Right Arrow / Click (Interface)
• Strafe Left - A
• Move Downward - S / Down Arrow / Click (Interface)
• Strafe Right - D
• Confirm - Z / Spacebar / Left Click
• Cancel - X / Escape / Right Click

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Credits

• Developed by Swarnava Banerjee (Neel) using RPG Maker MV
• Using Plugins by MythAtelier, Yami, Yanfly, CutieVirus, waynee95, Ecilla, pEc0Gh0sT, HimeWorks, Jason R. Golding, Caethyril, Mr. Trivel, Lanza
• Using Image Assets by gilgaphoenixignis, AntumDeluge
  
• Using Sound Assets by vitalezzz. natlyea, Eric Matyas