The Core

The Core

A vast, ancient, and surreal underground machine. The environment is an unsettling fusion of the industrial and the organic: corroded metal,  wires, leaking fluids, flickering lights, and rhythmic mechanical sounds that feel alive.

You are a keeper, the same as many before you. Only you alone have arrived here with the power to restore the Machine to maintain all that is know. Seek out the Destruction or Merging power cores and reinitialize the simulation! The choice is yours... But remember... If you take that key card

Be sure you are ready to open that door...

A short game made for the Bigmode Game Jam 2025! Utilizing the theme of POWER I created a place just parallel to our own reality. Behind the curtains, the inner workings and functions of the simulation; the whole, the Machine. You are tasked with finding a lost power core and installing it in its designated  power conductor, located in the main hall. Merge with the machine, or destroy it? The choice is yours in this multi (3) ending short story! Enjoy the narrative and hopefully... You find that door...