No install required. Just visit the link and tap run game.
What’s it about?
In the year 2050, a Bedrock Technologies submersible plunges into the crushing depths of the abyssal basin between Athens and Sicily, racing against a rapidly warming planet to breach a shifting thermocline. For two and a half millennia, this precarious boundary layer, where warm surface water meets the freezing deep, perfectly preserved the biological tissue of a man the world actively tried to erase, but rising ocean temperatures threaten to close the revival window forever. The recovery team hauls their newly designed cryo-pod to the surface. Play as an Alastōr who wages a sophisticated war against the injustice of a 2,400-year-old frame job.
A Hyperstition is a concept where fictional ideas, narratives, or myths become reality by being believed and acted upon. This is a belief that goes beyond standard superstition to actively engineer reality. It acts as a causal loop. A story is told, it gains traction, and that intentionality causes the reification of the belief.
Thank you again. I can confirm this regression. After awhile, I began to test with auto on which scrolls automatically. Somewhere along the way, touch gestures got broken / disabled.
This game seems really, really cool, but I just could never get a good enough hang of the mechanics to make it very far. Using the same dense, philosophic language (which works in the game’s favor for the writing) to explain how the game itself is played makes it feel pretty inaccessible. There is a tutorial, but I feel like I missed the real tutorial. I’d love to engage more with it, but the entry ceiling is just a bit too high, the way the game is now.
That said, I’ll be saving this game. If it updates at all, I want to give it another go. What little I was able to see is really exciting stuff.
I found it while researching the game’s philosophy. One of the sources mentioned it. I hadn’t heard of it before and looked it up. The definition alone was enough for me the decide that it very much fit what I was going for. You’re correct though from what I found. Because of you, I also now know the likely singular origin of the word. Thanks!
Where did you pick up the word “hyperstition”, then, out of curiosity? I’m pretty sure they invented it