1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.
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The Peabody Award winning 1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. 1000 years in the future, humanity is all but extinguished and a disease spread by an alien occupation keeps the survivors underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in service of the ALLMOTHER, until the day you learn a shocking secret that changes everything.
In the near future we learn we are not alone in the universe. A mysterious alien race of giant entities arrives. We call them the Occupants.
They are not hostile, but it doesn’t matter. Their arrival is a death sentence. Humanity is wiped out in a matter of months, succumbing to a disease the Occupants have brought to our planet.
There is one survivor, a teenage girl called Iris. Somehow she is immune.
1000 years later. Iris is not only immune but immortal. She has birthed a new society consisting exclusively of her own clones.
She calls them Sisters. They call her the ALLMOTHER.
Unlike the ALLMOTHER, the sisters are not immune. They must wear masks 24/7 to avoid breathing the diseased air even in the Orchard - an underground bunker where they live in constant fear of an Occupant attack.
The ALLMOTHER lives in her own compound on the front line of the war with the Occupants. All Sisters dream of one day being able to take the train and join her in the fight.
Within the Orchard, every sister has an assigned function, while six sisters have special roles to play…
Principal - Head of administration and oversight of the Orchard
Bang Bang Fire - Head of military
Knower - Head of knowledge preservation
Fixer - Head of engineering
Healer - Head of medical and cloning
And you - the new Watcher.
Your role is unique. You have the great privilege of reliving and interpreting the memories of the ALLMOTHER through a process known as Communion, made possible by Secretary, your floating AI companion.
As the game begins, you are excited to embark on your first Communion.
But all is not well.
Your closest sister, Fixer, comes to you with a dangerous revelation. You have been lied to. The ALLMOTHER is not what she claims to be.
Fixer’s claims rock the foundations of your world, throwing everything you know and believe into doubt.
After Fixer is executed for her treason, it falls to you to discover the truth.
Dive into the memories of the ALLMOTHER.
Explore pivotal moments in her life from high school days and the arrival of the Occupants to the creation of the Orchard and the birth of the first sisters.
Jump back and forth through moments in time within these memories to solve puzzles and access locked off areas and secrets.
In between Communions, explore the Orchard - a large underground hub area which houses you and your sisters, has many characters to speak to, and holds many things to uncover.
Find the truth and reclaim your legacy.
Experience perspective shifts both literal and metaphorical as the game blends between 3rd person adventure, visual novel and first person walking simulator while throwing twists, turns and revelations at you until you question everything you think you know.
Born from an eclectic set of inspirations, including the games of Yoko Taro (NieR:Automata), the anime of Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue) and Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice), and even the theatre of Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach), 1000xRESIST tells a story in ways only a game can while simultaneously bringing fresh ideas to interactive storytelling from theatre, dance, performance art, and cinema.
Enjoy more than 10 hours of playtime brought to life with over 15,000 lines of fully voiced dialogue from a brilliant cast of Asian-Canadian actors and an incredible soundtrack from two composers.
1000xRESIST is created by sunset visitor 斜陽過客, an independent studio based in Vancouver (Canada) dedicated to telling diverse stories through the lens of speculative fiction. We are a group of majority Asian-Canadian diaspora creators with a decade of experience in dance, theatre, music, film, visual arts, and new media arts, bringing our background in the experimental performing arts to interactive media.
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Hekki Grace
One thing should be said upfront: 1000xRESIST does not explain itself when explanation would be convenient. It gives you grief, ritual, political theatre, family memory, and floating geometry, then trusts—or forces—you to assemble the world from fragments. 1000xRESIST is a story about memory, migration, inherited trauma, authoritarian mythmaking, and people repeatedly mistaking control for salvation. It is also deeply confusing, occasionally infuriating, and far too fond of making basic navigation feel like an archaeological dispute. It gives emotional understanding long before factual understanding. Iris is both victim and architect of enormous harm. Watcher is manipulated, condemned, preserved, and continually treated as a symbol instead of a person. Principal, ALLMOTHER, and the later factions all reproduce control while claiming necessity. The clone society gradually moves from roles toward names and personhood. The protagonist switch and Old Town section disrupt momentum. The fragmented chronology is thematically brilliant but sometimes mechanically obnoxious. The ending offers a cautious future beyond Iris’s mythology.
This game made me feel things
The progressive devs decided to make a game criticizing our #1 enemy. Not to say that China isn't deserving of criticism, but they obviously took an easy path. They would have taken a lot of flak to mention indigenous schools with buried children's corpses, or the war on terror (5 million people died). Did you know that US sanctions kill millions of people a year? Obviously drawing attention to our own war crimes would have been more difficult, but its something that we have some effect on and our tax money supports. Politically, this game is just COD but for progressives. As our countries' politicians push for an actual war with China, this is just feeding the fire.
Love a good generational trauma story
Rarely do I ever take the time to write a review, but I feel this game earned a few extra minutes of mine. The game is essentially a visual novel with some walking/gameplay elements mixed in, not usually the kind of game I enjoy. In this case, though, the story itself was incredibly captivating and presented so well. It didn't take long to hook me, and it kept me hooked right until the very end. I found myself constantly going back over the events in my head when I wasn't playing, mulling over what I'd learned and piecing it together. I was extremely invested in the story and got emotional quite a few times while playing. I was very satisfied with the conclusion, and really appreciate the save point right before it so you could experience all the different endings without too much hassle. The art style is quite interesting. Honestly, when I first loaded in, I thought the game might be a bit of a meme, like a lot of the indie horror games I've played in the past. That impression didn't last long. The game is genuinely beautiful, and the music did a great job complementing the visuals, creating a truly immersive atmosphere. My one issue was that I spent way too much time lost in the main hub area, a very minor complaint in the grand scheme of things. This game might be a 10/10, and I'd recommend it to anyone.
ゲームとしてストーリーやプレイ体験ではなく、現実にリンクしたメッセージ性(政治的なものも含む)が評価されているのかなと思います。 数件レビューを読んでプレイしたのである程度心構えはしていましたが、操作感は10年以上前のゲームのようで、ストーリーもレビューにあるようなものを「含む」のではなく「それが全て」というくらいメッセージ性が溢れるものでした。 特に自分が気になったのはある時点で流れるムービーで現実と製作者及びそのメッセージがゲームを通してではなく直接的に感じられたことですごく冷めました。 それ以降はうっすら期待しながらクリアを目標に進めましたがその部分の印象しか残りませんでした。 悪いゲームというほどではありませんが、「ゲーム」を楽しみたいという人に薦めることはできないかなと思います。
A game like no other. Sometimes a bit rough around the edges, but the narration gets more and more intense.
Gameplay? There's none... and im serious about it... yet, if you ask me to pick my top 5 games... this is probably in there. 10/10.
it's a little woke, but i can look past that. hekki allmo fine ♥♥♥♥. probably one of my all time favourites. excited for prove youre human!!!
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Languages: English*, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, French, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil*languages with full audio support
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