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Exchange

by Peter Johnston

Estimated play time: 8 minutes (based on 1 vote)
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About the Story

A choice-driven story that asks the question: what’s the true cost of immortality?

In the near future, people can transfer their consciousness onto a hard drive in order to live eternally. Inspired by work such as "After Yang" and "Sunday in the Park with George", this branching narrative game goes back and forth between the perspectives of the those who have and those who have not.

Awards

Entrant, Back Garden - Spring Thing 2026

Ratings and Reviews

Two perspectives, a promising start, May 19, 2026
Related reviews: Spring Thing 2026

Originally posted on intfiction.

This is a demo for a longer game in development. It takes place in the future but close-enough to our world with immortality through mind uploading and some shuffling of geopolitical borders going on.

The very first choice is the biggest, as it decides the person you play the rest of the demo as, either a doctor about to administer a mind operation, or a billionaire who is the intended patient of said operation. Both characters have distinct arcs and it’s well worth doing a repeat playthrough from the other perspective (easily doable, the currently released content is not very long). There are some mismatches between first-person and second-person pronouns in the billionaire’s segment that I’m not certain were intentional or not.

I’m looking forward to how these two perspectives will collide in future installments!

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