‘Strange Aeons’ Converses Over Surreal Early-Internet Hellscapes

Strange Aeons has a chat together with your information out of Hell, and in the event you can discuss your method by a number of weird rituals, you may take your home among the many residing 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 have been trapped in an abyss of early 90’s youth tv. Thankfully, you will have 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. In order to comply with that decision, you’ll want to talk the proper phrases together with your information. You have to talk your self again into existence, in a way, by fixing verbal riddles and discovering what your cryptic information wants of you.

There is all the time an overbearing sense of dread on this growing older cyber hell. The world feels prefer it was crammed with the guarantees of an exquisite future, however has been left, eternally 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 which means however the sentences weaving a sinister tapestry over actuality. You can say what you wish to it at occasions, however there’s all the time this sense that merely speaking with this factor is incorrect. It’s such as you’re making one thing occur that shouldn’t. You’re agreeing to a contract you don’t undertstand.

Strange Aeons is a surreal expertise, and one whose emotions have caught with me since enjoying 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 appears like I’ve opened a door to one thing I shouldn’t have.



Strange Aeons is accessible now on itch.io and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been overlaying indie video games for numerous websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, 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 artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.