A narrative management space opera. That’s almost as much of a mouthful as the game’s title, but it’s the way developer crispy creative describes its game A Long Journey To An Uncertain End, currently running a Kickstarter campaign until March 4.
(There’s a demo on Steam here.)
A Long Journey to an Uncertain EndDeveloper: Crispy CreativeAvailability: On Kickstarter until March 4
The concept behind it really makes you wonder why no one has made a game like it before – the ideas are familiar, but not the tone. In the demo I played as part of a preview event, you, the captain of a spaceship, come to, only to realise you the spaceship, a fully sentient AI only represented through a human, which you then get to design yourself in a character creator. The best thing: the assistant guiding you through this creation process and the first steps in the game is C.O.R.G.I., a holographic… well, you guessed it.
For the most part, your goal in Journey to An Uncertain End is to survive on the run from… your ex. Your ex is hellbent on pinning you down in an abusive relationship, so you better put as much space between them and yourself as possible.
But being on the run takes resources, so sometimes you have to land and take a job or two. You select a planet to land on, and then choose from a number of available jobs with different rewards. With an eye to your supplies, you decide whether you should earn provisions, fuel or favours, because out there in space you’ll never know when you might need a favour.