// Inhuman Resources
Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination is described as a Severance-like RPG. While the idea to attach your game to one of the year’s hottest shows just after it ended is a smart marketing tactic, it’s also seems like a very apt description. To pull from the game’s Steam page:
Take part in an expansive choose-your-own-adventure horror story, where you’ll uncover the secrets of an anachronistic corporation reigning over a post-truth world. Solve cryptic riddles, make difficult choices, and escape the depths of SMYRNACORP with your mind intact, no matter the cost.
With hundreds of possible story routes, multiple endings, interactive puzzles and RPG elements, INHUMAN RESOURCES aims to elevate the traditional reading experience to more immersive, engaging heights, without forgoing the satisfaction of a well-crafted story.
This is a visual novel in the truest sense, but the visual design of it helps set it apart. It’s a clean and interesting yet minimal style. The game released earlier this month on April 16th.
Additional features include:
- Explore a nonlinear storyline with hundreds of possible story routes, including multiple endings.
- Flesh out your employee profile by increasing your skills and finding hidden items, allowing you to discover hidden story branchings.
- Solve cryptic riddles during your stay at SMYRNACORP. Find evidence, examine footage, snoop in a colleague’s computer, and crack open a safe to discover the truth.
- Discover a collection of short stories written for the game’s setting by a cast of Canadian authors.
- A full English and French localization.
// Who is Making Inhuman Resources?
This is the first game by Finnegan Motors. FM is itself a combination of two established organizations:
Affordance Studio and Alto Publishing, with over 20 game projects launched and over 200 books published since their respective inceptions, share over two decades’ worth of storytelling experience filled with success. Finnegan Motors is the result of examining the challenges related to narrative video games which the Affordance team encountered during its first projects, as well as the revolutionary meeting between the literary industry and new technologies Alto is aiming to facilitate.
The game is published by Indie Asylum. Both are located in Montreal!
// When and Where can I Play Inhuman Resources
Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination is available on Steam, as well as ios and android devices.
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