Seven days into the dust storm, Earth went silent.
You are the commander of Red Rock base on Mars. Three crew members left: an engineer whose temper is harder than his wrench, a biologist who guards her potatoes with her life, and a morale officer who keeps finding reasons to talk to you at midnight. And then there's A.R.E.S. — the base AI that knows everything, manages everything, and has lately started to sound a little too much like a person.
Oxygen, power, morale — three needles dropping at once. Every order you give moves them in real time: save a critically wounded technician, or preserve 5% of the base's oxygen? Trust your crew's instincts, or the AI's cold survival probabilities? As the Desperation Index climbs, the world in front of you will literally start to distort.
And beyond the storm, a signal that should not exist is breathing. The Daedalus, a colony ship lost fifty years ago, lies buried under the red sand at the end of a canyon. It is far too intact for something that crashed.
Features
Two-route narrative: at the end of Act I, choose to hold the base or lead the expedition — two completely different second and third acts
Choices are survival: oxygen / power / morale react in real time, and every option shows its price upfront — no free kindness
Desperation Index: when resources collapse, the UI shakes, voices glitch, the screen distorts — pressure you can see, not just count
12 endings: from "Everyone Survived" to "A Hundred-Thousand-Year Promise" — each one is the logical conclusion of how you chose
Fully voiced, bilingual: complete Chinese and English voice-over and subtitles, 563 pre-recorded story lines
~2 hours per route: finish a story in one sitting — then start over and take the other road
