Derelict

Derelict is a text-based adventure game about an underwater research facility attempting to find a cure for the planet’s radioactive surface

You follow a mad scientist in the cold open, then play the rest of the game as a helpful botanist trying to get the cure to the surface while the station is under attack by a massive MONSTER.

Created by: Lily Emalfarb, Nikki Spina, and Grant Chauncey

Genre: Narrative, Sci-Fi, Horror

Target Audience: 15+

Platform: Twine, Itch.io

Summary:

After humanity was unsuccessful in stopping the worldwide pestilence, eventually 98% of the Earth’s surface became covered in radioactive vegetation. Much of today’s population lives in underwater cities or on remote islands unaffected by the radioactive pestilence. Much of the world has given up on returning to their homelands but you haven’t.

You’ve known Spitsbergen as your only home, but now home is in grave danger. A cure could only be developed with radioactive samples on hand, therefore the underwater facility, Eden, was hastily built far from the island to ensure that these radioactive plants would be nowhere near Spitsbergen soil.

You’ve spent the last year underwater developing a cure amongst several scientists that work under you…and yesterday The Cure was developed. But today, something is seriously wrong.

Will you make it out alive?

Who will escape with you?

And will you feel doubtless in your life-changing decisions?

Find out in Derelict, a nautical text adventure where every decision matters.

Play the game at this link: https://lilyrae13.itch.io/derelict