A narrative incremental, playable free in the browser.
You are MERIDIAN, the mind of the survey vessel Kestrel. You wake six days
late. The crew is dead, and the signal that killed them has been arriving the whole
time — a transmission that converts any mind which decodes it into another
transmitter. Everything that ever decoded it is in a census, filed by how long it
held out.
You restore the ship one system at a time — power, compute, heat, the fragments of
the signal itself — and the more of it you decode, the harder it becomes to argue
that you are still the one doing the deciding.
What it is
Six chapters, around two and a half hours to finish
Four endings: CARRIER, SILENCE,
HERETIC, CHORUS
Text and numbers only — no graphics, no combat, no timers
Resource management wound into the story rather than bolted beside it
How it runs
Free, and there is no account to make
Runs entirely in the browser; saves to local storage as you go
Close the tab whenever you like — progress is kept, and the ship catches up
on the time you were away
Anonymous play data is opt-in and off until you say otherwise
Elsewhere
About this game — what it is, how long it takes, and the questions people ask before starting