Narrative adventure game ELON announced for PC

Published in: Games, Indie games, Video games | Tagged: Aleth Laboratories, ELON

Do what you must to protect your creator as you play as a sentient AI in ELON, aiming for a PC release later this year.

Indie game developer and publisher Aleth Labs has announced its latest game, ELON, is coming to PC later this year. The game is quite strange and fun as you play the role of a sentient AI of the same name, as you have to protect an eccentric billionaire who keeps inventing strange things and integrating them into your system. He also keeps getting attacked, so you have to save him from whatever might happen. The game is marked as “coming soon”, so we assume it will be released before the end of 2024. You can play a demo of it on Steam right now with a Playtest coming soon.

ELON

The Electronic Learning Optimization Network seems pretty big, but what does that have to do with this… maverick… person you've been tasked with chaperoning? Take on a world of excessive technology by digging into your own archives to discover the truth about ELON. Sharpen your transistors (doesn't that even make sense…?) and discover the full range of the puzzle/adventure genre through a morphing game interface. Reach your AI tentacles (only metaphorical, of course) via the Internet and interact with electronic devices near ELON. Explore rooms, manipulate and move objects, generate distractions and induce fear to advance ELON to his destination using a traditional point-and-click style.

• Get ready to overclock your processor! Experience logic puzzles, escape rooms, and challenging multitasking across four different game modes: point and click, driving, WASD-style direct controls, and destructive lasers. A simplified property system allows for multiple resolutions in many rooms, including shortcuts that can save time or avoid hazards.
• Are you asking for a challenge? Or is your neural network fried? Choose from three difficulties that adjust the puzzle structure in subtle but important ways. Lower the difficulty at any time to cool down your CPU. Or stay on hard mode and use each core to prove your problem-solving prowess! Adapt your search algorithm to any difficulty to find optional hidden secrets throughout the game that unlock a mysterious door deep in an abandoned laboratory.
• Where we're going, we don't need backups. Did you make a mistake? Forget the tedious tasks of traditional save and load management. A persistent health system allows you to replay previous levels at any time, saving your highest health score at each level and carrying it forward cumulatively without losing your progress.
• Fully voiced dialogue brings the characters to life. (or uh… artificial life?)
• Visual nostalgia: Discover a modern world in a retro style thanks to isometric pixel art drawn by a guy who loves rub his face on your cat's belly. (Marketing tells me this isn't a feature, but I think they're just jealous.)
• Take control: All modes fully support keyboard/mouse and controller input. A dual joystick thruster combo battle station with a full set of pedals is a little less supported, but you can try. I'm not the police.

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