
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
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Year Unknown is a short "walking sim" with a branching narrative. It takes ~1 hour to complete.
Explore The Library, a megastructure the size of the universe, filled with all of humanity's knowledge. To guide you are two Artificial Intelligences, built to process its massive collection of information.
But something else is calling you - a distress call from the center of the universe. The stagnant universe is breaking down, and there may be no way to save it.

Explore brutalist landscapes, and find terminals to talk to two AI. Both have different thoughts and opinions, and might tell you different things. Fortunately, you have control: choose which AI to talk to, what to tell them or leave out, and ultimately, decide who you agree with.
Includes the following accessibility options:
Text size adjustment
OpenDyslexic as an alternative font
Text-to-speech
Option to reduce the motion of certain effects and sequences
Note: This game does not contain content from a generative AI. The AI in the game are written characters.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 41 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
I don't know what to say, other than that I recommend it.
The game is a walk and read explore/discover kind of experience. Its interesting and flows along nicely. The graphics and sounds are interesting. Big structure type atmosphere. Though there is some unique creations in there. The Dialog takes place by interacting with an AI in the terminal. (Its not "AI" its canned AI dialog). Its interesting and flows to a final decision. A bit short, but I kind of like that these days (for me just over an hour..) In my opinion worth it.
I love the little robot guys even if one of them wants me dead 💛 great story! Great art! Great game!!!!
The game is not worth its cost unless you get it in a bundle, the entire game is very pretty as an architect I really appreciate what they have done, the megastructure collection bundle was very much worth it and this is definitely a nice short gem. You have a few options in the game I believe. Spoiler post completion: [spoiler] Not choosing BO is clearly an act of cruelty, reject eternal suffering for the sake of continued existence [/spoiler]
Even though theres not a lot of content i still really liked the game, the world it created was very accurate for how it felt. It made me care about both AIs and made me sad that i couldnt give them both what they wanted.
I REALLY like this game, thank u for making this ^^
Ironically short game about eternity
Can it even be called a "Universe" anymore? If you keep it from naturally evolving, is it still the same reality?
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Rendben van.
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