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Contaminated Space

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Estimated play time: 23 minutes (based on 2 votes)
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About the Story

To venture into the exclusion zone is to drop off the face of the universe.

A short story about alien parasites.

Awards

Entrant, La Petite Mort - English - ECTOCOMP 2024

Ratings and Reviews

A loner in space encounters a contaminated area, November 13, 2024
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This was a mournful, reflective, and gross game by KADW. And not gross in a bad way, gross in a cleansing way, like popping a zit or rinsing a filter until it’s clean.

You play as a wanderer in space who feels listless, uncaring of the outside world and desiring to be completely alone and shut the rest of the world out.

The prose is beautiful. One part made me think ‘I bet the author researched this and thought it was cool’; at least I thought it was cool (talking about approaching the sun):

"No. No one would see anything. At the distance where objects start to burn from approaching a star, they are already close enough to be indistinguishable to faraway observers."

The gross parts happen later, but it’s not so much a bad thing as a transformation, and it ties into the overall themes. There are two endings.

This game reminded me a bit of a fiction story about cordiceps fungi infecting humans, which I heard on the Creepy podcast as the story “madness, mutilation, death”. Very intriguing stuff!

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