A Border with No End is a horrorpunk adventure RPG set right in the middle of your normal everyday insanity, psychotic depression and a surreal nightmare, that is both meaningless and interpretive. Fight for nothing and loose it all.
STORY:
Explore the concrete-sunken layers of panelium, the historically-inaccurate politically-incorrect communal world of your own insanity: you are a pointless punk with psychotic depression. You want to leave the place, but you won't. SPOILER ALERT: You die in the end.
GAME-PLAY:
At its base, ABWNE is a point and click adventure with somewhat unconventional RPG and puzzle elements. Base world structure akin to classic JRPGs. No cap Statistics. Puzzle-based battles! Story-driven and linear.
WARNINGS:
CONTROLS: [Mouse + Keyboard] ONLY.
Playtime: The game is short. 2/5 hours to beat.
Content: Zero optional content, no achievements, 100% linear
Barely legal pixel-hunting!
The soundtrack contains brutal dubstep!
Eastern European historical and cultural context, never explained. Appropriately Bad English too.
AI Disclosure:
If something looks like a photo (or photo-realistic video), it's AI-generated and heavily edited afterwards. Most music is human-composed, but is re-arranged by AI (human-originals can be found on developer's web-site). For more info on the AI usage read the game's manual.
AGE Restriction:
The game might be too depressing for a kid. + Bad words. Suggestive dialogue, that may make you think the characters are talking about sex.
SCREENSHOTS:
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| Don't waste a second, looking at your map. Play on the map, never looking at the world! |
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| Relaxing puzzles! |
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| Every enemy has things to say! |
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| Relaxing Puzzles! |
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| Explore locations! Pixel-hunt! |
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| Puzzle Battles! |
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| One of the central quadrants. |
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| Puzzle Battles! (The answer is S12) |
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| One of the deeper areas |
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| EU Vault |
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| Puzzle Battles! |
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| Area E-0 |
LINKS:
Ark, 2026
I gotta say I am impressed with the bosses as they definitely look like eldritch horrors mixed with some clever humor. Were these made using AI or are they completely original? They do remind me of your art style. Also what does it mean to play on the map? Is your character the cursor?
ReplyDeleteThe enemies are mix: AI as a base + hand-drawn on top + frame by frame animation, also hand-made.
ReplyDeleteThe character you control looks like a point on a map. Cursor is used for some actions like opening doors or portals, solving puzzles.