A contest entry for The Future 2124!
The company has called on you to investigate the now silent Installation Echo. Initial field reports mention sightings of strange latex-like creatures who appear to have taken over the facility.
Search for the truth in a secret research facility while braving peril and unknown creatures that threaten to change your entire identity every time you face them. Seek out allies, in any form that they may take to help you navigate the depths of Installation Echo. Animated scenes, and a unique blend of extraction looter and text based gameplay accompany a dark storyline about corporate secrets and unethical research. Keep an eye out for collectable weapons and upgrade materials, you'll be needing them to truly survive and even thrive as you carry out your mission.
The storyline will see you dive deep into Installation Echo, where you'll encounter various aliens that all are able to corrupt and transform others. Initially, you'll likely be resistant to these changes, but as you go deeper, will the advantages to the changes outweigh the risks? Additionally, the game has an intentionally light cast of side characters, focusing instead on repeating combat encounters that can all lead you down various paths, both in terms of long reaching decisions and short term gratification.
Finally, the game is much more focused on a linear story direction, and while there will still be a large freedom of choice, the intent here is that you are always moving towards a clearly defined goal, which for the most part will be your initial missions resolution. Various events and situations along the way might change you and your companions in ways you couldn't dream of, but at the end of the day, you are still an elite operative sent in to get the job done, no matter what it takes.
Featuring animated scenes, a unique blend of extraction looter and text based gameplay, the game revolves around a dark storyline about corporate secrets and unethical research. Keep an eye out for collectable weapons and upgrade materials, you'll be needing them to truly survive and even thrive as you carry out your mission.
It's been a lot of fun for us to work on this thing and we're glad we finished something playable and decent in time for the contest's deadline. We're looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!
Preview
Version 0.1.3
This release fixes some of the issues found in the initial release.
- Content: Added a new scene after defeating the Guardian, teasing the events to come in Chapter 2.
- Content: Added Emilia's missing fifth trust point on the compliant route.
- Feature: Enemies now possess resistances and weaknesses to damage types. You can find more information about this on bestiary codex pages.
- Feature: You can now find a recycler in Storage Room 1A, which will allow you to convert excess consumables into resin.
- Change: Grenade Toss base damage no longer depends on the currently equipped weapon. Its base damage is now 25 and its dexterity modifier has been buffed to 5, which should make it more useful in early game.
- Change: Piercing Shot's dexterity multiplier has been buffed to 3.
- Change: The event selection system has been entirely reworked. You can now open your inventory without losing the encounter upon exit.
- Change: Resistance stat has been renamed to Defiance for consistency.
- Change: The unknown key can now be found in the lobby if it was missed during the intro sequence.
- Improvement: Small talk actions with Emilia now return you to the interaction menu instead of the lab scene.
- Improvement: Campaign quests are now handed in via Emilia's interaction menu. This allows to turn-in the Memories side quest before the campaign quest.
- Improvement: The family picture for the "Memories" quest has been updated.
- Improvement: The minimap has been updated with a marker and room highlight system.
- Improvement: Scavenging has been updated to show cans and nanite boosters inside drawers when found.
- Improvement: Saves will have better naming when possible.
Developer notes: The changes to Grenade Toss now allow it to one shot drones if you have at least 5 dexterity boost upgrades.
Version 0.1.2
This release fixes some of the issues found in the initial release.
- Change: Slight changes have been made to the initial intro scenes. Thanks to DirtyWolf11 for his feedback.
- Change: Killing enemies now provides more resin.
- Change: Scavenging for too long will sometimes be met with consequences.
- Bugfix: Fixed a few cases of extra empty lines appearing in some scenes.
- Bugfix: Fixed the storage room blowjob exploit prevention somehow being even more exploitable than before.
- Bugfix: The missing predator outro variant n°4 has been removed.
- Bugfix: Restored a missing audio track.
- Bugfix: Fixed the bottom modal window buttons not appearing on mobile devices.
- Misc: Updated the descriptions of the unknown key and the pink dildo to state their usage is not yet implemented.
- Misc: Updated some social links now that the game has been released.
Version 0.1.1
This release fixes some of the issues found in the initial release.
- Content: Added a new sex scene with Emilia. Requires player corruption level 2.
- Content: There are new interactions with the friendly drone in the storage room. Requires drone evolution level 1.
- Feature: Added a new damage upgrade for the rifle.
- Feature: You can now see your abilities out of combat from your character sheet.
- Feature: The bestiary is now implemented in the codex.
- Improvement: Inventory list is now sorted.
- Improvement: Fights now have several text variations.
- Bugfix: The storage room blowjob exploit is no longer possible.
- Bugfix: The drone's assists no longer print as undefined.
- Bugfix: Fixed the stretched scaling of zoomed images on iOS.
Version 0.1.0
The initial release of Silent Echo's first chapter.
I like it fights little uneven but good game story.
I really agree with what the two other reviews say. Interesting story, pretty good game loop, good UI, nice graphics. Definitely a 'must watch'.
I don't like the grind for resin, it seems pretty unachievable without constantly losing the fights. Maybe I'm missing something but, you don't get enough resin from the enemies to repair the armour damage they cause so you have to live in your health only which means constantly going back the the hideout to rest. It seems really unnatural, and not at all plot driven.
Really nice game for what content there is during chapter 1. Personally I enjoyed the gameplay much more than I expected from a game like this and the art and UI design are miles ahead of most games of this type. Strongly recommend people to check it out, even if you're not that into drone tf (like me) since the game seems quite good even with it's limited tf content at the moment.
I very much hope to see some new bad ends and transformations added in the following chapters, hope to see more soon.
I have finished playing through the main route and overall I have to say that this game is excellent! Mechanically well-designed with a great UI, excellent writing, awesome custom art, and overall a well-built core gameplay loop. I made a donation on Itch.io because I definitely enjoyed my time with it and am very much looking forward to future updates. Since the game is early-on and the devs are looking for feedback, I am going to provide a series of nitpicks below. They are NITPICKS, and did very little to hurt my overall enjoyment of the game.
Anyway those are my nitpicks, but again, none of the above takes away from the fact that this a great game even in its current state, and I would already recommend people trying it even in the current early version. I can't wait to see how future updates make it even better!
