
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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No idea what happened, but I made it halfway through, saved and exited. When loading game, there's no way to select item anymore. Regardless, not a bad game, but you have to love the genre.
The irony of this game is that I actually fell and got stuck and lost progress...
Es dificil agarrarle el gusto a este juego, porque no me lo puedo pasar y lo tengo hace 4 años. Siempre que me propongo acabarlo me quedo enganchado con una parte de la historia que dura demasiado y lo termino dejando por aburrimiento, pero aun asi le tengo cariño a este juego, estoy seguro que mis nietos terminaran lo que yo un día empecé, 10/10 si te gusta leer, resolver puzzles, y clickear a todos lados esperando desbloquear algo.
7/10
good game
'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.
Sigue siendo un juego con planteamientos muy moderno e incluso podría decir que he disfrutado más rejugándolo hoy, dado que ahora somos más conscientes del funcionamiento de la IA, que en su momento. En portal una IA "malvada" nos está fastidiando y tenemos que sobrellevarla, aquí, nosotros somo la IA y nos la tendremos que ingeniar para poder interactuar con el mundo siguiendo nuestra programación. Una aventura cuyo fuerte es la narrativa y el guion, con algunos puzles ingeniosos y escena de acción que ni lo hacen bien. Que la movilidad sea tosca, que se que puede molestar, es algo que reo que le viene bien para recordar en todo momento el tipo de personaje que encarnamos. Para mi un juego con planteamiento bueno, desenlace mejor y con algunos puzles curiosos intermedios, es bastante cortito eso si, pero por lo que cuesta va perfecto.
Decent game, have a few bugs, could be a nice palet clanser, only 3-4 hours max, 7/10. I'm still thinking about offing myself and I'm honestly too scared.
A solid indie puzzler with a strong story.
For its price, it is a interesting and somewhat spooky game. Though some puzzles are kinda ridiculous [spoiler](I'm ret4rted, sorry)[/spoiler]
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