UNKNOWN

You are the thirteenth researcher posted to Ethereal Outpost Theta. The twelve before you are gone.

The station still runs. It drifts in the Unknown, the space between realities, and the Office that sent you wants one thing done each day: find other places, go there, and write down what you saw.

THE SCANNER

Sit at the dimensional scanner and send out a ping. Somewhere in the static, a signal answers. Steer toward it, read what the screen says about it, and hold the button to lock on. The place is now written to a cartridge.

THE PORTAL

Tune the cartridge at the attunement bench, wait while the Resolver brings the place through, then dock it at the portal and throw the switch.

SOMEWHERE ELSE, FOR A FEW MINUTES

A ruined arch hanging in a turning green sky. A kelp forest with the sea taken away. A plateau where the snow hangs still in the air. Each place holds only for as long as your cartridge allows, and the clock on your suit counts it down. Scan what you can before it runs out. When it does, the place lets go and you are pulled home.

A STATION TO LIVE ON

Between visits there is a station to look after. File your reports and get paid, eat, sleep, and mend what you can. The maintenance drone keeps its own rounds, and the station's voice is glad of the company. Every room was left in the middle of something.

OUTSIDE

Put on the void suit and take the Drifter, a small deck on a line, out to the islands that float near the station.

NOT EVERY PLACE IS KIND

Some places are quiet and beautiful. Some are not what they were a moment ago. There is no combat, and you are rarely in danger, but you will not always want to stay.

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THE DEMO

The demo is the first week of your posting: seven station days, from your arrival to the eighth morning. It takes about four hours. When the week is over you can keep walking the station, but nothing new will happen. It is free.

The full game is still being made: the story past the first week, more of the station, and many more places to find.

CONTROLS

Keyboard and mouse, or a controller. WASD to walk, E to use, hold E to pick up, R to pocket, F for the lamp, H for the handbook, Esc to pause. Every key can be changed in SETTINGS > KEYS, and CONTROLS in the menu lists them all.