A Long Journey To An Uncertain End is an intriguing space opera with a touch of tabletop

3 years 2 months ago

A narrative management space opera. That's almost as much of a mouthful as the game's title, but it's the way developer crispy creative describes its game A Long Journey To An Uncertain End, currently running a Kickstarter campaign until March 4.

(There's a demo on Steam here.)

The concept behind it really makes you wonder why no one has made a game like it before - the ideas are familiar, but not the tone. In the demo I played as part of a preview event, you, the captain of a spaceship, come to, only to realise you are the spaceship, a fully sentient AI only represented through a human, which you then get to design yourself in a character creator. The best thing: the assistant guiding you through this creation process and the first steps in the game is C.O.R.G.I., a holographic... well, you guessed it.

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