AEON: The Awakened
“Two hundred and eleven years. I lay down for twenty.”
AEON: The Awakened is an atmospheric sci-fi point-and-click puzzle adventure. Builder Kael Soren wakes on an abandoned comet ark and pieces together from memory what happened to it and where it is going.
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Memory
Kael remembers this comet alive. Press and hold on the scene, and through the ice you see what stood here 211 years ago: hidden hatches, worn-off inscriptions, how the machines worked. Try it right here, this is the same effect as in the game.
Press, hold and move across the scene. Linger where Kael remembers something.
The prequel
Twelve minutes on why the Aeonians left dying Aeonar and why the road to a new home took fifty thousand years. This is the history Kael wakes up into. The video is narrated in Russian.
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An ark inside a comet
Aeonar was cooling for tens of thousands of years. So the Aeonians hollowed out a comet, built greenhouses, living sectors, laboratories and a Sleep Sector full of capsules inside it, and left for a distant yellow star. The journey took fifty thousand years.
Kael Soren, of the family of builders who keep the comet’s blueprints, lay down in a capsule for the usual twenty years. He woke up after two hundred and eleven. The engine is dead, half the sectors are under ice, and the living no longer look ahead. They call his waking a miracle, and they hesitate before saying the name Soren.
- Who woke him?
- Why is his family blamed for the disaster?
- Where is Aeon really going?
Kael’s notebook
The game has almost no interface. Kael keeps goals, clues and notes by hand, and the same notebook holds the board with the game’s main question.
Reminders
- Examine everything. Pick up, combine, use. Eight things in your hands at most.
- Valves, gears, prisms, power circuits, a star map: 36 puzzles in all.
- You can’t lose. No dead ends, and a bad line in a dialogue just gets you nothing.
- Stuck? Hints come in steps, from a nudge to the answer.
- After chapter five you choose what chapter six will be. Three endings.
Who woke me?
An ampoule for the Spark lay on the floor by my capsule. On the stopper is the Keepers’ seal.
The Council seal on the Sleep Sector door is intact. So whoever came did not use the door.
Nola Tenn
Mira Dax
Vedda
Too early to name anyone
In the game
Who Kael meets
The whole game is voiced in English and Russian, over 1,100 lines in each. Press to listen.
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Kael Soren
Scientist and builder, keeper of the comet’s blueprints
“Two hundred and eleven years. I lay down for twenty.”
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Nola Tenn
Assembler, goes into the dead sectors for parts
“You’re lying. Sleepers don’t wake. Not one, in my lifetime.”
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Vedda
Elder, 226 years old, the oldest on Aeon
“You have not changed at all. And I have grown up.”
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Oren Sel
Leader of the Listeners of Silence
“We do not look ahead. Aeon looks ahead for us.”
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Torvin Hast
Head of the community
“A miracle is useful as long as it stays home. The gate is closed. That’s all.”
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Mira Dax
Archivist
“The Archive is not an almshouse. Fix the projector, then we’ll talk.”
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
- App StoreComing soon
- Google PlayComing soon
- Genre
- Atmospheric sci-fi point-and-click puzzle adventure, painterly 2D
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad and Android, landscape
- Language
- English and Russian: text and voice-over
- Size
- 8 chapters, 18 locations, 36 puzzles, 3 endings
- Chapters
- Awakening, The Dead Sectors, The Miracle, The Spark Laboratory, Observatory, Echo, The Hangar, The Second List
- Engine
- Godot 4