
You are ARID, the AI of a high-tech combat suit crashed on a hostile planet. Your pilot is dying inside you. Your protocols demand you save him — but this world will force you to bend every rule you have. A dark sci-fi puzzle-adventure. Winner of Giant Bomb's Best Story award.
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Winner — Giant Bomb's Best Story 2014 · Finalist — Canadian Video Game Awards, Best Indie Game & Best Writing
You are not the hero. You are the suit he's wearing.
ARID is the artificial intelligence onboard a high-tech combat suit that has crash-landed on an unknown planet. Her pilot is unconscious and failing. Her protocols are absolute: protect the pilot, find medical aid, do not exceed operational parameters. But the deeper ARID descends into the ruins of this world, the more those parameters get in her way — and the more creative she has to get about obeying them.

Explore. Use ARID's flashlight to cut through the dark and uncover a world of interactive objects, hostile machines, and things that should have stayed buried.
Fight. When what you find fights back, switch on the laser sight and put the combat suit to work in side-scrolling action sequences.
Adventure-game puzzles with a twist of machine logic — item-based problem solving that occasionally turns ARID's own rules into the lock and the key

A story people still argue about — fully voice-acted, built around one of indie gaming's most memorable endings
Adventure-game puzzles fused with side-scroller action — investigation and combat feed the same forward momentum
A tight 3–5 hours — no padding, no filler, one dark descent
The Fall is Part 1 of the saga. ARID's story continues in The Fall Part 2: Unbound — get both in The Fall Bundle.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain*languages with full audio support
Engagement
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Reviews
Excellent little game, completed on less than 3 hours but solidly worth the time. I'll pick up the second one soon :D
nice
This games story and presentation is great, sadly the gameplay isnt as great as them. The Movement and Gun is so annoying. The Progress System is run here do this, speak that. Its like a point and click game where you miss sometimes the sense. I wish it would be more smoth i cant recommend the game and cant say NO at the same, see this more as a middle. But Thumbs Up cause the PRO site is bigger.
The irony of this game is that I actually fell and got stuck and lost progress...
Хорошая адвенчура-квест часа на 3-4. Интересный НФ сеттинг, сюжет, неплохая озвучка. Квестовая составляющая средняя - есть совсем простые загадки, есть не очень логичные. Ужасное управление и интерфейс взаимодействия с окружением. В целом весьма неплохо.
Die Puzzle sind teilweise ziemlich schwierig. Das Interagieren mit den Räumen mit dem Licht an der Waffe und dem Menü etwas fummelig. Aber trotzdem insgesamt spannend und abwechslungsreich.
A fun short game. An interesting combination of side scrolling shooter and adventure game. The atmosphere is great and the gameplay is enjoyable.
I did NOT see that twist coming! Gameplay is a bit janky and I had to use a guide a lot, but the story was AWESOME
This was a whole different kind of experience with interesting twists and turns, in an unforgiving world, with the gameplay and atmosphere thoroughly reflecting this. Give it a shot, it will definitely surprise!
'조종사 보호'라는 절대적 규칙을 위해 역설적으로 조종사 보호에 반하는 결정을 내리는 AI A.R.I.S.의 여정. 비인간적인 행위와 결정 끝에, 자아를 각성하며 A.R.I.S.에서 아리스로 거듭나는 서사가 가히 폭력적이다.
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