This game, absolutely stunning. just grinded out every ending and man, were they emotional. The 11-12 endings have to be my favorite, and i nearly cried at 11.4 especially. i wish Ash were properly alive, its the only thing thatd make it a better ending than 12. And all the rest, of course, were perfectly done. Making your choice and then, centuries later, still paying the price for whichever species you sacrificed, though funnily enough ending 4 seemed like a pretty damn happy one. Anyway, excellent game, will probably replay a lot. if anything else like this exists, i need it in my life.
First thing I need to say is, wow, my tears ducts have run dry after this I swear. I just finished and went back to do all the endings and I think my favourite would have to be ending #4 with Esra. I remember them saying Esra was modelled after a human mind, and I like to believe some parts were of Ash. The quote especially for ending #4 "In a distant land, a garden, free of weeds, grows new and unique flowers. I watch them with you." makes me want to believe Esra and the MC were able to find companionship (maybe some love) and happiness in each other in that last life together, with a special emphasis on just being able to chill after everything that happened.
Loved it, I love the way you did the turn-based combat, and having to use different forms for different tasks was fun. I loved the story and how in the end (#2 the first one that I got) it all came to a climax and you got closure. I'm sad that I never got to use the Rosetta to save an infected robot, of course, if I really wanted to I could have gone out of my way to do it. I love that in this game your choices really do matter. Also, the part where a robot pretends to be you was fun because of how it was handled. I really wish that closer to the end you could go back to the core (if you chose to unplug it instead of killing it) and repair it. The only other thing that I can think of to add would be a way to revisit scenes that you've already finished (not getting rewards) and go back through the dialogue, it'd also be nice if, in large swaths of dialogue, there was a back button to go back to the previous page.
Wowwwww I loved this game, it was amazing! I was obsessed with this while I was playing it and had trouble putting it down. The fights were pretty engaging, I loved how you needed to adopt different strategies with different enemies so it always kept things interesting. I also liked that I didn't ever feel like I needed to grind to level up. The way that death is incorporated as a game mechanic was super interesting and I loved it, I think it's cool that death is almost a mandatory part of the game. itchio doesn't have a tag for "choices matter" I think but boy this game really is a choices matter type game, and the way the game handles your choices (and mistakes!) was really well done, I was super impressed. Especially some of the decisions towards the end were really tough to make, I had to sit and think for a while about what I wanted to do. I'm actually super happy with my ending (I got #10) so I'm reluctant to go back and change things, but I am super curious about what happens in the other endings so I will (even though I fully expect to be emotionally devastated by them). I was really attached to the characters (especially Esra, of course) and thought the world-building was really good as well. I think a text-based game is hard to pull off, and I've read some pretty good ones, but this is definitely one of the best, and one of my favorite games I've played in a while.
Hi! I downloaded the game. Is it meant to take me to an internet explorer page with the game? I don't personally see how it's different from the web version since it's still on the web, but none of my saves are there anymore so I'm pretty sure that it is different ^^ sorry for the silly question!!
EDIT: Seems the art is also covered by the choice panel thingy (a lot of it is just black and then hovering in it are the choice buttons, so a big black bar is at the bottom of the screen) and the only way to get it out is to zoom fully out but then I can't read the text anymore. I'm so sorry for all the messages gaaaah I'm genuinely loving the game I hope this does not come across as some complaining saga cuz it's NOT. Just me trying to figure out if my laptop is broken or if I'm doing something wrong but if I'm not then this is really cool :D - so sorry tho. I love this game ^^
Hi Spirit! I'll answer your questions to the other post here as well. :)
Yes, the downloaded version is still HTML-based, so it plays through a browser. I wouldn't recommend you run anything through Internet Explorer, though, since that's officially a dead browser. I'd try Chrome and see what happens.
When you play the itch.io browser version of the game and the downloaded version, they technically count as different game instances, so the browser saves are different. However, you can still play your old game by going to the itch.io version, saving the game to disk, and then going into the downloaded version and loading the save file from disk. Bit convoluted, but this should work.
Not really sure what's happening with your choice panel. Can you save your game and send it to adam.ryncraft@gmail.com, along with a screenshot of what's going on your desktop?
In terms of sound, sometimes when you load the game, the game doesn't remember what music or sound was triggered. It tends to fix itself once you go to an area where new music and sound is triggered, like the main camp. Not sure if that helps.
The bioregeneration isn't a bug, it's a feature. :D In the tutorial, Esra gives you plant bits, so you heal in combat. Benefits of being human. That said, if it's triggering before you even meet Esra, that's probably a bug.
Hopefully some of this helps, but if not, email me with the deets and the save file! That's the best way I've found to troubleshoot this stuff.
Hi! So sorry for the bother :') This game, believe it or not, is one of my special interests LOL
~Gotcha, I thought either something went wrong, my laptop was being stupid or I did something wrong (I thought the last one was the most likely since I'm absolutely terrible with technology LOL) but it's good to know that that is indeed the downloaded version! I only mentioned the saves to convince myself 'yup this is totally the downloaded version, otherwise my saves would still be there!' haha! ~The choice panel is only when I play via the downloaded version, but I'll see what I can do! (Cuz again, terrible with technology!) I will first try to see if I can access Chrome and if the choice panel is fixed, if it is then I'll leave a little comment that it's all good and if it isn't I'll follow your instructions ^^ hope that is okay!! ~That does help, thank you! My player character stepped out of the Progenitor and I heard a click and I was like '....wait just that? Where's the woosh? Where's the dramatic sloshing of liquid vanishing?' LOL. I thought 'there must've been an update to edit sounds' but turns out there isn't ^^ I have noticed that if I go to another area, the music fixes itself usually. Thing is, when I go inside with the first Quartz Chip, and I 'Trudge along the ruins' then go inside, the ruin music still plays with wind and all, so that's why it stood out to me. But there are indeed little ways to fix this, so thank you for telling me those :D ~Huh, that's good to know. I guess it's just a coincidence then, because I've never, ever had bioregenaration before I had the update. It only triggered and healed me in exploration and combat after I got the update for 40 Microchips and I didn't get that one yet, so I was like 'woah, what is happening here?! Since when do I heal-' but it's good to know it's the plant bits ^^ I genuinely think the forms and different reactions/benefits are so cool tho :D
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my rambles, and terribly sorry for my rambles at the same time!! I still have to find the time to sit down and play through all the new scenes, but one day... one day I will! I swear, you could put this game down for money and I'd buy it, I love it so much. I genuinely can't wait to see more IF there's gonna be more ^^ I hope you have a wonderful awesome day!!
I feel like the sounds have changed since the last time I played. And I played after the lastest update. The Progenitor door feels a little... off, lacking of sound. Base camp doesn't have the lighthearted music either, but idk... Just remember it not being like that the first time I played after the update.
Now that I think of it, I've restarted the game multiple times due to experiencing sound glitches. Sounds play wrong, or snippets of songs play. Such as the crashing sound, it's like someone spamming pause and play on a movie. The music from one place carries over to another place and if I try to fix it, there's no music anymore at all.
HOWEVER... And I want to make this clear... It could just be the fact that my laptop is falling apart, which is what I suspect, to be honest.
EDIT: Okay I feel like there's definitely something going on. I have just begun a new playthrough, not a SINGLE upgrade. Yet, I heal in the midst of battle... I don't think that should be possible, right? I have NOT had the Bioregenaration update yet, so I should NOT be regenerating...? I'm .. very confused :') I hope my message doesn't sound rude!
I wish I had the time and energy for a full playthrough with all the new scenes added again but I have not gotten there yet :') Someday I am going to see all of these scenes.
I honestly can't wait for the next update(s) if they're coming. Chain events, that you mentioned, if you're still working on that, sound awesome. I just can't wait to see what becomes of this game. Whatever becomes of it, I know I'll be playing it for as long as it goes :D
Just finished it!!! You my friend are really talented and I comment for the second time ever in itch.io just to let you know what a gem your game is.
I will eventually go for the rest of the endings but not yet. I am too sentimentally attached to my first playthrough right now and I need to let it sink in for a while...
THIS WAS SO GOOD this is probably the best story I've ever seen in a game. I felt tense throughout the entire thing and now I wish there was a fanbase for it T_T. 20/10
i will seriously cry again while writing this I LOVED EVERY PART OF IT GOD I WISH THE GAME WENT ON FOEVER IM NOT READY TO LET GO. It's beautifully written and i can't even begin to express my love for Esra, i'm not quick to cry but i swear tears swelled on my eyes on more than one occasion. best game ever <3
This is, honestly, one of the best games I think Ive ever played. Best game Ive seen in itch. I do find it funny that even if you one-shot the beast in the tutorial your still injured from it some how.Also its annoying that you can't actually name the save files you make, so whenever I go to load a file I have almost no idea what im actually loading. It's just trial and error.
Edit:also quick question: how do I create a normal new game after completing the game? It only lets me make new game+. I never got the forged in fire achievement.
What a game, I most definitely will go back and see how everything else plays out because I'm curious about that. For my first play through however, I managed to obtain the Terra Zero Sum (#7) for my ending.
I regrettably killed many life forms over my play through until I realized non-lethal was the way to go, but I think I made up for it. I'm definitely going to try for Proven Pacifist for NG+
I do have some nags but they're mostly unimportant, one of which is the romance option with Rivers and how you never see her again after she gets carted away when you and Shay go to visit the ship. But, I understand if it was just a small side quest.
Anyhow, I'm not sure how good "Heart of Humanity" is but it sounds like a pretty dope title. Overall, a solid 9/10 experience.
Id love to try this game but for whatever reason I cant. I try to play in the browser (due to my broke ass owning a chromebook) but all I get is a thanks for downloading screen. I try to click next or press any button on the keyboard and it never goes to next. Any suggestions? Are the brain worms convincing me its impossible to play in browser on chrome OS
Hi DeepBlue! I'm currently overseas and nowhere near my machine, so I can't troubleshoot until I'm back, sorry. :/ Can you shoot me through an email on adam.ryncraft@gmail.com with a screenshot? I can try and figure this out once I'm back home.
MY GOD THIS WAS SO GOOD! I'm gonna have to go through it again but I have no idea how I'm going to get all 15 endings without being upset about some of them lmao
I only made an account just to comment here, i was just randomly scrolling itch for a game to play when bored, saw this, thought it seemed interesting, did not expect to play this till almost 12 am, i started playing at around 5 pm.
I love it so much honestly, i dont have any bug reports but i am so invested in this games story and the characters and lore inside. I utterly adore the companion a.i. as well alongside unveiling the backstory of the world. Thank you for creating this game it is such a joy! I havent unlocked any endings yet but i have been so invested in this game, i think it has a LOT of personality, there are small grammer mistakes occassionally but you can look past them I think.
I might be one of the worse reviewers on anything purely because i cannot find the words to describe, but I do highly reccommend it. I love the story it's telling so far and the writing :]
EDIT: My bad, I did not realize that the game only told you how much damage you took AFTER your nanofiber skin absorbed some. I thought the game told you the total damage, and then told you how much was taken away from that damage without actually telling you how much damage you took.
Turns out, the game tells you 'You took this much damage' and only puts the 'your skin absorbed (number)' and adding that number to the damage would get your TOTAL damage. My bad. Also, it seems with the scene editing, the carcass issue is no longer there!! Majorly enjoying this game :) Still a huge fan :D
So my nanofiber skin does not seem to be working. I had 140 health and my enemy striked for 13 damage. Instead of taking 8 damage, I took all the thirteen damage, despite the battle thing saying it got absorbed by my nanofiber skin.
And a smaller thing is that I always subdue enemies, and it describes them fleeing or still being alive, but in the next scene it describes that their corpse is still laying there.
I'm still massively enjoying the game tho, I love it! Finally making time to read all of those extra scenes that were added :)
I'm glad you're enjoying the game and the new scenes!! And I always love when past me fixed a bug before I get to it, he's super convenient that way, lol.
Yes, unfortunately either me, my laptop or both are dumb and my save got deleted LOL. No matter now I'll just get to start all over again and it's not that much of a deal :D My only bummer is that I grinded for hours a day and now all of that is gone LOL LOL. But!! I get to read it all over again and that's the main reason I play :D
you should make sprites of the machines and X'irii, i cant help but think the X'irii are bug like people and the machines look like the robots from destiny 2 lmao
I still need to make the time to read all the new scenes :') So I have a question; if I download it so that it's staring straight at me from my desktop home page, will it update or will it stay the way it was when I downloaded it? Thank you in advance :)
Right now I am playing on browser and if the game gets updated I get to go to itch io and I have the update.
If I download it; will it update, do I have to do that manually or do I have to delete the game and download the newest version? Sorry for being unclear!!
Wow, this has been my first ever finished game on itch.io, and I am blown away! I felt so connected with the storyline and characters, I lost sleep while I was thinking about what to do next! Beautiful art and dialogue, and truly had me sentimental about many people. Thank you for this! I am now going to share this with all of my friends so I can see what type of person they are... haha!
hi! i noticed that out of nowhere shay started using she/her pronouns after going by he/him for the entirety of our previous encounters, so im curious— is shay genderfluid/nonbinary?
huh, maybe it got confused due to my sexual orientation choice— i went for mostly men but sometimes women. so shay must have been using male pronouns at first but then the game got confused and swapped it for female? i can't really think of a different reason. especially since a bit later on it was back to he/him like nothing happened. must just be a bug.
This is most likely a bug. I'm still tracking down all these pronoun errors, so if you come across any, please report them using the bug report function!
OWWWWWWWWWWW. I SHOULD'VE STOPPED. I SHOULD'VE BEEN HAPPY WITH MY HAPPY ENDING, BUT NOOOOOOOOOO I HAD TO BE CURIOUS.
Great game and I loved it.
And f*ck you (not really, but I'm sed now).
Edit: I just got endings 11-4 and 12 and my emotions. This is the second game to ever make me choke up (first one being the happiness series). Out of all games I got more invested in two itch.io games than any actual published game.
I would really like to donate money to you. This was really good and you deserve it. If you have a donate button I cant find it. Is there a paypal I can send it to?
Thank you, I really appreciate the thought. :) But the only payment I need is knowing you enjoyed the game!
That said, it you know anyone who would like Trigaea, let them know about it! If not, that's also fine - I have surprisingly little sci-fi loving friends on my side of things, and the ones that like text-based games was even smaller. Finding beta players was a paiiiin. *Inner cry*
I adore text based games and rarely find really good ones. Unfortunately I dont have friends that like them as much as I do but i will definitely try to grab their interest!
I havent looked at your other games yet but I definitely will!
I made an itch acount just to say how good, well written and sad this game is. I hardly slept at night thinking about it. The story and atmoshpere might be better than any AAA game I played. If big studios would make an 3d game based on your lore it would go down in history. 10 / 10 Will play again.
The answer is "Yes" and "Maybe"! I've got a mobile-optimized browser version done, I've just got to test it and push it live. That should be playable through the itch.io app on the phone or a regular browser. That said, I'm aware this might add loading times and be less ideal than a downloaded version.
If it's as a proper native app on a mobile store, it's a "Maybe." It's not generally best practice to turn Twine games into APKs and release them that way, and the file size of Trigaea adds some unique issues that other Twine games released as mobile apps don't have. Still, it's something I've looked into before, and might do in the future.
Hi, thanks for the feedback! Can you please put this behind a spoiler tag, because there's some big reveals there. Just don't want to ruin things for anyone. :)
Oh,sorry , completely forgot, thanks for mentioning! I don't know how to add spoiler tag in comment section so temporarily made a warning about spoilers and put them deep into "View rest".
Its a great game but if i could givve an sugestion it would be to make save files nameable and to ask for confirmation before deleting them, just an opinion because i like to save some special parts of the game depending on what they change so i can redo them and see what happens and it gets hard to organize if the save file is a whole sentence
Hi, great question! The art is not mine but from a number of awesome sci-fi artists who have generously allowed me to use it in my game. The artists are listed in the Trigaea credits with hyperlinks to their art pages and websites.
This is the best text based Sci-fi RPG game I have ever played, In terms of being the best RPG it is only a few steps away from being the next Undertale, You already have a fandom, Just make a part 2 and you'll be #1 !!
Wow. This game is incredible. I've played a LOT of IF games and this is one of the very best. I can't believe it's free. The gameplay is simple yet rewarding: I kept expecting it to become a grind, but it never quite reached that point. The world-building is fairly standard sci-fi, but it's pretty well done. The prose itself is functional. There's some small errors here and there. The dialogue is good, and characters feel real and speak naturally.
The narrative, however, is EXCELLENT, and absolutely elevates this game above most others. The plot maintains its sense of mystery the entire way through, with just enough information dished out to keep you interested. The characters are interesting and all-too-likeable. And the dilemmas and decisions have real weight. Especially towards the end. The emotional payoff for spending time with this game was more than worth it: by the end, I was incredibly invested in the outcome, in what would happen to the world and the characters I'd met.
(I've just come back from Ending 12 to write this comment and I'm legitimately still crying.)
I'll be recommending this to anyone who will sit still enough to listen to me.
This is an amazingly beautiful game. I was really moved by all the endings and the story. The game is so well written, I'm not even much of a reader but the game's writing captivated me. An easy 10/10.
Damn, man. I highly recommend it to anyone who's wondering if you should play this or not.
Hey I was thinking of doing a blind review of this game this upcoming week. I do blind reviews of games as part of my channel now. I was thinking of doing it sometime Thursday. If you'd like to be part of the livestream as the dev, if there are some good times for your timezone, let me know before Thursday and we can adjust times.
Hi, that sounds great! That should be Friday morning for me. Feel free to send me any other details (like meeting links, etc) on adam.ryncraft@gmail.com.
Awesome! Here's the link to the video, it will stream live at the specified time. I only played about 10 minutes of your game in anticipation of a possible review and I think it looks really cool:
Feel free to keep this question and post up, I'm happy to answer.
The "Blind Review thing" is a situation in which I'm trying to do reviews on my channel, but pretty raw. If I go into a game totally blind without looking at any of it at all, it might not be ready yet as a game or whatever, and I will try to weed that out.
As for your game, I saw all the comments on it, and I also saw there wasn't a lot of videos for it, and I played for 10 minutes, and already knew it was going to be good. So I want to do a review to get your game more noticed. I am a game developer as well, but I want to review hidden gems. I think your game fits the definition of hidden gem, but I will play your game on Thursday and find out.
Please like and subscribe to our channel as well so you can see our game too. But from seeing the basics of your game, I'm seeing the very fundamentals of RPG's in your game that need to be noticed by other makers of RPG's.
Finished the game today, loved it, here's the last video where I reviewed it. Initially I got Ending 10, which I was satisfied with/ending made sense for how I would be in that position of the Character/outcome I was looking for. I will check out all the other endings too.
beautiful game. ive always loved text-based games and I assumed this one would be your run of the mill sci-fi adventure game. i was wrong, complex characters, backstories, development, and a moral that should be taken to heart are all found within this free game.
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this game was so beautiful, very grateful that i got to play it
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This game, absolutely stunning. just grinded out every ending and man, were they emotional. The 11-12 endings have to be my favorite, and i nearly cried at 11.4 especially. i wish Ash were properly alive, its the only thing thatd make it a better ending than 12. And all the rest, of course, were perfectly done. Making your choice and then, centuries later, still paying the price for whichever species you sacrificed, though funnily enough ending 4 seemed like a pretty damn happy one. Anyway, excellent game, will probably replay a lot. if anything else like this exists, i need it in my life.
loved it. excellent story and well built world. highly recommend.
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First thing I need to say is, wow, my tears ducts have run dry after this I swear. I just finished and went back to do all the endings and I think my favourite would have to be ending #4 with Esra. I remember them saying Esra was modelled after a human mind, and I like to believe some parts were of Ash. The quote especially for ending #4 "In a distant land, a garden, free of weeds, grows new and unique flowers. I watch them with you." makes me want to believe Esra and the MC were able to find companionship (maybe some love) and happiness in each other in that last life together, with a special emphasis on just being able to chill after everything that happened.
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Loved it, I love the way you did the turn-based combat, and having to use different forms for different tasks was fun. I loved the story and how in the end (#2 the first one that I got) it all came to a climax and you got closure. I'm sad that I never got to use the Rosetta to save an infected robot, of course, if I really wanted to I could have gone out of my way to do it. I love that in this game your choices really do matter. Also, the part where a robot pretends to be you was fun because of how it was handled. I really wish that closer to the end you could go back to the core (if you chose to unplug it instead of killing it) and repair it. The only other thing that I can think of to add would be a way to revisit scenes that you've already finished (not getting rewards) and go back through the dialogue, it'd also be nice if, in large swaths of dialogue, there was a back button to go back to the previous page.
Wowwwww I loved this game, it was amazing! I was obsessed with this while I was playing it and had trouble putting it down. The fights were pretty engaging, I loved how you needed to adopt different strategies with different enemies so it always kept things interesting. I also liked that I didn't ever feel like I needed to grind to level up. The way that death is incorporated as a game mechanic was super interesting and I loved it, I think it's cool that death is almost a mandatory part of the game. itchio doesn't have a tag for "choices matter" I think but boy this game really is a choices matter type game, and the way the game handles your choices (and mistakes!) was really well done, I was super impressed. Especially some of the decisions towards the end were really tough to make, I had to sit and think for a while about what I wanted to do. I'm actually super happy with my ending (I got #10) so I'm reluctant to go back and change things, but I am super curious about what happens in the other endings so I will (even though I fully expect to be emotionally devastated by them). I was really attached to the characters (especially Esra, of course) and thought the world-building was really good as well. I think a text-based game is hard to pull off, and I've read some pretty good ones, but this is definitely one of the best, and one of my favorite games I've played in a while.
Hi! I downloaded the game. Is it meant to take me to an internet explorer page with the game? I don't personally see how it's different from the web version since it's still on the web, but none of my saves are there anymore so I'm pretty sure that it is different ^^ sorry for the silly question!!
EDIT: Seems the art is also covered by the choice panel thingy (a lot of it is just black and then hovering in it are the choice buttons, so a big black bar is at the bottom of the screen) and the only way to get it out is to zoom fully out but then I can't read the text anymore. I'm so sorry for all the messages gaaaah I'm genuinely loving the game I hope this does not come across as some complaining saga cuz it's NOT. Just me trying to figure out if my laptop is broken or if I'm doing something wrong but if I'm not then this is really cool :D - so sorry tho. I love this game ^^
Hi Spirit! I'll answer your questions to the other post here as well. :)
Hopefully some of this helps, but if not, email me with the deets and the save file! That's the best way I've found to troubleshoot this stuff.
Hi! So sorry for the bother :') This game, believe it or not, is one of my special interests LOL
~Gotcha, I thought either something went wrong, my laptop was being stupid or I did something wrong (I thought the last one was the most likely since I'm absolutely terrible with technology LOL) but it's good to know that that is indeed the downloaded version! I only mentioned the saves to convince myself 'yup this is totally the downloaded version, otherwise my saves would still be there!' haha!
~The choice panel is only when I play via the downloaded version, but I'll see what I can do! (Cuz again, terrible with technology!) I will first try to see if I can access Chrome and if the choice panel is fixed, if it is then I'll leave a little comment that it's all good and if it isn't I'll follow your instructions ^^ hope that is okay!!
~That does help, thank you! My player character stepped out of the Progenitor and I heard a click and I was like '....wait just that? Where's the woosh? Where's the dramatic sloshing of liquid vanishing?' LOL. I thought 'there must've been an update to edit sounds' but turns out there isn't ^^ I have noticed that if I go to another area, the music fixes itself usually. Thing is, when I go inside with the first Quartz Chip, and I 'Trudge along the ruins' then go inside, the ruin music still plays with wind and all, so that's why it stood out to me. But there are indeed little ways to fix this, so thank you for telling me those :D
~Huh, that's good to know. I guess it's just a coincidence then, because I've never, ever had bioregenaration before I had the update. It only triggered and healed me in exploration and combat after I got the update for 40 Microchips and I didn't get that one yet, so I was like 'woah, what is happening here?! Since when do I heal-' but it's good to know it's the plant bits ^^ I genuinely think the forms and different reactions/benefits are so cool tho :D
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my rambles, and terribly sorry for my rambles at the same time!! I still have to find the time to sit down and play through all the new scenes, but one day... one day I will!
I swear, you could put this game down for money and I'd buy it, I love it so much. I genuinely can't wait to see more IF there's gonna be more ^^ I hope you have a wonderful awesome day!!
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I feel like the sounds have changed since the last time I played. And I played after the lastest update. The Progenitor door feels a little... off, lacking of sound. Base camp doesn't have the lighthearted music either, but idk... Just remember it not being like that the first time I played after the update.
Now that I think of it, I've restarted the game multiple times due to experiencing sound glitches. Sounds play wrong, or snippets of songs play. Such as the crashing sound, it's like someone spamming pause and play on a movie. The music from one place carries over to another place and if I try to fix it, there's no music anymore at all.
HOWEVER... And I want to make this clear... It could just be the fact that my laptop is falling apart, which is what I suspect, to be honest.
EDIT: Okay I feel like there's definitely something going on. I have just begun a new playthrough, not a SINGLE upgrade. Yet, I heal in the midst of battle... I don't think that should be possible, right? I have NOT had the Bioregenaration update yet, so I should NOT be regenerating...? I'm .. very confused :')
I hope my message doesn't sound rude!
I wish I had the time and energy for a full playthrough with all the new scenes added again but I have not gotten there yet :') Someday I am going to see all of these scenes.
I honestly can't wait for the next update(s) if they're coming. Chain events, that you mentioned, if you're still working on that, sound awesome. I just can't wait to see what becomes of this game. Whatever becomes of it, I know I'll be playing it for as long as it goes :D
Just finished it!!! You my friend are really talented and I comment for the second time ever in itch.io just to let you know what a gem your game is.
I will eventually go for the rest of the endings but not yet. I am too sentimentally attached to my first playthrough right now and I need to let it sink in for a while...
Bless you for this...
THIS WAS SO GOOD this is probably the best story I've ever seen in a game. I felt tense throughout the entire thing and now I wish there was a fanbase for it T_T. 20/10
i will seriously cry again while writing this I LOVED EVERY PART OF IT GOD I WISH THE GAME WENT ON FOEVER IM NOT READY TO LET GO. It's beautifully written and i can't even begin to express my love for Esra, i'm not quick to cry but i swear tears swelled on my eyes on more than one occasion. best game ever <3
Damn,that story hit harder than my dads belt
This is, honestly, one of the best games I think Ive ever played. Best game Ive seen in itch. I do find it funny that even if you one-shot the beast in the tutorial your still injured from it some how.Also its annoying that you can't actually name the save files you make, so whenever I go to load a file I have almost no idea what im actually loading. It's just trial and error.
Edit:also quick question: how do I create a normal new game after completing the game? It only lets me make new game+. I never got the forged in fire achievement.
(Edited for slight spelling errors)
What a game, I most definitely will go back and see how everything else plays out because I'm curious about that. For my first play through however, I managed to obtain the Terra Zero Sum (#7) for my ending.
I regrettably killed many life forms over my play through until I realized non-lethal was the way to go, but I think I made up for it. I'm definitely going to try for Proven Pacifist for NG+
I do have some nags but they're mostly unimportant, one of which is the romance option with Rivers and how you never see her again after she gets carted away when you and Shay go to visit the ship. But, I understand if it was just a small side quest.
Anyhow, I'm not sure how good "Heart of Humanity" is but it sounds like a pretty dope title. Overall, a solid 9/10 experience.
Id love to try this game but for whatever reason I cant. I try to play in the browser (due to my broke ass owning a chromebook) but all I get is a thanks for downloading screen. I try to click next or press any button on the keyboard and it never goes to next. Any suggestions? Are the brain worms convincing me its impossible to play in browser on chrome OS
Hi DeepBlue! I'm currently overseas and nowhere near my machine, so I can't troubleshoot until I'm back, sorry. :/ Can you shoot me through an email on adam.ryncraft@gmail.com with a screenshot? I can try and figure this out once I'm back home.
I sure can
Hey no need to worry about trouble shooting it. I.. somehow(?) fixed it. No idea what I did different
Great to hear, I hope you enjoy it! :)
MY GOD THIS WAS SO GOOD! I'm gonna have to go through it again but I have no idea how I'm going to get all 15 endings without being upset about some of them lmao
I only made an account just to comment here, i was just randomly scrolling itch for a game to play when bored, saw this, thought it seemed interesting, did not expect to play this till almost 12 am, i started playing at around 5 pm.
I love it so much honestly, i dont have any bug reports but i am so invested in this games story and the characters and lore inside. I utterly adore the companion a.i. as well alongside unveiling the backstory of the world. Thank you for creating this game it is such a joy! I havent unlocked any endings yet but i have been so invested in this game, i think it has a LOT of personality, there are small grammer mistakes occassionally but you can look past them I think.
I might be one of the worse reviewers on anything purely because i cannot find the words to describe, but I do highly reccommend it. I love the story it's telling so far and the writing :]
One of the best and the first game on here that I played! I love this game so much!
Questions;
EDIT: My bad, I did not realize that the game only told you how much damage you took AFTER your nanofiber skin absorbed some. I thought the game told you the total damage, and then told you how much was taken away from that damage without actually telling you how much damage you took.
Turns out, the game tells you 'You took this much damage' and only puts the 'your skin absorbed (number)' and adding that number to the damage would get your TOTAL damage. My bad. Also, it seems with the scene editing, the carcass issue is no longer there!! Majorly enjoying this game :) Still a huge fan :D
So my nanofiber skin does not seem to be working. I had 140 health and my enemy striked for 13 damage. Instead of taking 8 damage, I took all the thirteen damage, despite the battle thing saying it got absorbed by my nanofiber skin.
And a smaller thing is that I always subdue enemies, and it describes them fleeing or still being alive, but in the next scene it describes that their corpse is still laying there.
I'm still massively enjoying the game tho, I love it! Finally making time to read all of those extra scenes that were added :)
I'm glad you're enjoying the game and the new scenes!! And I always love when past me fixed a bug before I get to it, he's super convenient that way, lol.
Yes, unfortunately either me, my laptop or both are dumb and my save got deleted LOL. No matter now I'll just get to start all over again and it's not that much of a deal :D My only bummer is that I grinded for hours a day and now all of that is gone LOL LOL. But!! I get to read it all over again and that's the main reason I play :D
Past you is very convenient xD
Is it available for android?
Not in terms of having an APK for the Google store, but I am planning to release a mobile-optimized version for in-browser use.
Cool!
you should make sprites of the machines and X'irii, i cant help but think the X'irii are bug like people and the machines look like the robots from destiny 2 lmao
If I was an artist, I totally would! The best I could probably do is a 8th grade anime impression.
I still need to make the time to read all the new scenes :') So I have a question; if I download it so that it's staring straight at me from my desktop home page, will it update or will it stay the way it was when I downloaded it? Thank you in advance :)
Not sure I understand the question, but if you download a new version and load an old save, the game will be updated to the new version.
Ah, my bad allow me to explain;
Right now I am playing on browser and if the game gets updated I get to go to itch io and I have the update.
If I download it; will it update, do I have to do that manually or do I have to delete the game and download the newest version? Sorry for being unclear!!
Wow, this has been my first ever finished game on itch.io, and I am blown away! I felt so connected with the storyline and characters, I lost sleep while I was thinking about what to do next! Beautiful art and dialogue, and truly had me sentimental about many people. Thank you for this! I am now going to share this with all of my friends so I can see what type of person they are... haha!
This made me sad, but it also reminded me that this has several endings that will be true with humanity
hi! i noticed that out of nowhere shay started using she/her pronouns after going by he/him for the entirety of our previous encounters, so im curious— is shay genderfluid/nonbinary?
Did they? I thought shay was using she/her the entire time in my playthrough
huh, maybe it got confused due to my sexual orientation choice— i went for mostly men but sometimes women. so shay must have been using male pronouns at first but then the game got confused and swapped it for female? i can't really think of a different reason. especially since a bit later on it was back to he/him like nothing happened. must just be a bug.
My first playthrough was Asexual, but my second was Bi. The same thing just happened to me, where they switched to She/her.
This is most likely a bug. I'm still tracking down all these pronoun errors, so if you come across any, please report them using the bug report function!
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OWWWWWWWWWWW. I SHOULD'VE STOPPED. I SHOULD'VE BEEN HAPPY WITH MY HAPPY ENDING, BUT NOOOOOOOOOO I HAD TO BE CURIOUS.
Great game and I loved it.
And f*ck you (not really, but I'm sed now).
Edit: I just got endings 11-4 and 12 and my emotions. This is the second game to ever make me choke up (first one being the happiness series). Out of all games I got more invested in two itch.io games than any actual published game.
I would really like to donate money to you. This was really good and you deserve it. If you have a donate button I cant find it. Is there a paypal I can send it to?
Thank you, I really appreciate the thought. :) But the only payment I need is knowing you enjoyed the game!
That said, it you know anyone who would like Trigaea, let them know about it! If not, that's also fine - I have surprisingly little sci-fi loving friends on my side of things, and the ones that like text-based games was even smaller. Finding beta players was a paiiiin. *Inner cry*
I adore text based games and rarely find really good ones. Unfortunately I dont have friends that like them as much as I do but i will definitely try to grab their interest!
I havent looked at your other games yet but I definitely will!
I made an itch acount just to say how good, well written and sad this game is. I hardly slept at night thinking about it. The story and atmoshpere might be better than any AAA game I played. If big studios would make an 3d game based on your lore it would go down in history. 10 / 10 Will play again.
this has been an amazing expirience and i will gladly go through it all again just for the different endings. overall amazing game
Good game but I wonder will there be a Phone port?
The answer is "Yes" and "Maybe"! I've got a mobile-optimized browser version done, I've just got to test it and push it live. That should be playable through the itch.io app on the phone or a regular browser. That said, I'm aware this might add loading times and be less ideal than a downloaded version.
If it's as a proper native app on a mobile store, it's a "Maybe." It's not generally best practice to turn Twine games into APKs and release them that way, and the file size of Trigaea adds some unique issues that other Twine games released as mobile apps don't have. Still, it's something I've looked into before, and might do in the future.
One of the greatest games in existence. Thank you so much. I love your storytelling, and am excited to see what's next.
Game is really great, no doubts.
But her plot is really something.Everything goes to in the way devs wants only thanks to stupidity x stupidity.
Spoilers ahead
Earth is ruled by tyrants and we suffer from it?Let's destroy her!
- But what we do after that?
- Ehh...
We discovered that chosen planet covered by xenophlora and xenophauna?
- Lets kill each other and/or destroy all xenophlora and phauna!
Instead of making temporary base in order to refuel and search for another planet to colonize.Maybe leave outpost for studying.
No that's too smart instead of that we'll risk everything :/
And even after that sentient AI still want to continue this idiocy.
4/5 rate
Hi, thanks for the feedback! Can you please put this behind a spoiler tag, because there's some big reveals there. Just don't want to ruin things for anyone. :)
Oh,sorry , completely forgot, thanks for mentioning!
I don't know how to add spoiler tag in comment section so temporarily made a warning about spoilers and put them deep into "View rest".
No prob, thanks for the edit! That'll work great.
Its a great game but if i could givve an sugestion it would be to make save files nameable and to ask for confirmation before deleting them, just an opinion because i like to save some special parts of the game depending on what they change so i can redo them and see what happens and it gets hard to organize if the save file is a whole sentence
Hey dude if you don't mind me asking where did you get the art from or did you make it yourself?
Hi, great question! The art is not mine but from a number of awesome sci-fi artists who have generously allowed me to use it in my game. The artists are listed in the Trigaea credits with hyperlinks to their art pages and websites.
Thanks for the reply. The art indeed is great. Looks very dystopic but calming for some reason.
This is the best text based Sci-fi RPG game I have ever played, In terms of being the best RPG it is only a few steps away from being the next Undertale, You already have a fandom, Just make a part 2 and you'll be #1 !!
Wow. This game is incredible. I've played a LOT of IF games and this is one of the very best. I can't believe it's free. The gameplay is simple yet rewarding: I kept expecting it to become a grind, but it never quite reached that point. The world-building is fairly standard sci-fi, but it's pretty well done. The prose itself is functional. There's some small errors here and there. The dialogue is good, and characters feel real and speak naturally.
The narrative, however, is EXCELLENT, and absolutely elevates this game above most others. The plot maintains its sense of mystery the entire way through, with just enough information dished out to keep you interested. The characters are interesting and all-too-likeable. And the dilemmas and decisions have real weight. Especially towards the end. The emotional payoff for spending time with this game was more than worth it: by the end, I was incredibly invested in the outcome, in what would happen to the world and the characters I'd met.
(I've just come back from Ending 12 to write this comment and I'm legitimately still crying.)
I'll be recommending this to anyone who will sit still enough to listen to me.
This is an amazingly beautiful game. I was really moved by all the endings and the story. The game is so well written, I'm not even much of a reader but the game's writing captivated me. An easy 10/10.
Damn, man. I highly recommend it to anyone who's wondering if you should play this or not.
Just amazing i was so moved by the storyline i also created a posting in my linkdin platform lol. here it is https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mayukh-roy-9049b722a_ai-experience-tech-activity-... Feel free to connect on LinkedIn or any other platform.
~Fellow enthusiastic gamer
Wow. This game was amazing. Can't think of a better way to put it.
Hey I was thinking of doing a blind review of this game this upcoming week. I do blind reviews of games as part of my channel now. I was thinking of doing it sometime Thursday. If you'd like to be part of the livestream as the dev, if there are some good times for your timezone, let me know before Thursday and we can adjust times.
I was tentatively planning to do it at 12PM on Thursday (GMT -8), Pacific Standard Time (PST). Also here's my channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pkhNirMTaVLy0gEaPulXQ
Hi, that sounds great! That should be Friday morning for me. Feel free to send me any other details (like meeting links, etc) on adam.ryncraft@gmail.com.
Awesome! Here's the link to the video, it will stream live at the specified time. I only played about 10 minutes of your game in anticipation of a possible review and I think it looks really cool:
Hi Psychronic! I haven't gotten an email yet, so I'll just ask questions here and delete this post later. :)
1. What exactly is a blind review? I'm guessing from context that it's a review when you haven't played much of the game?
2. How am I going to log in and interact with your livestream? Just in the chat comments?
3. Is there anything else I should know about, in terms of how long you'll be reviewing, or things you might ask?
Thanks in advance!
Feel free to keep this question and post up, I'm happy to answer.
The "Blind Review thing" is a situation in which I'm trying to do reviews on my channel, but pretty raw. If I go into a game totally blind without looking at any of it at all, it might not be ready yet as a game or whatever, and I will try to weed that out.
As for your game, I saw all the comments on it, and I also saw there wasn't a lot of videos for it, and I played for 10 minutes, and already knew it was going to be good. So I want to do a review to get your game more noticed. I am a game developer as well, but I want to review hidden gems. I think your game fits the definition of hidden gem, but I will play your game on Thursday and find out.
Please like and subscribe to our channel as well so you can see our game too. But from seeing the basics of your game, I'm seeing the very fundamentals of RPG's in your game that need to be noticed by other makers of RPG's.
Finished the game today, loved it, here's the last video where I reviewed it. Initially I got Ending 10, which I was satisfied with/ending made sense for how I would be in that position of the Character/outcome I was looking for. I will check out all the other endings too.
beautiful game. ive always loved text-based games and I assumed this one would be your run of the mill sci-fi adventure game. i was wrong, complex characters, backstories, development, and a moral that should be taken to heart are all found within this free game.