You play as a worker who maintains and assesses the efficiency of 2ELLIOT, Arteon Corporation's key AI for digital media algorithms. This casual simulation adventure unfolds across fragmented cyberspace, where you splinter and reconfigure a decaying library of video games. Conversations with your responsibility and partner guide you through updated nostalgic games and shifting text adventures, revealing the algorithm's true nature and shared trauma.
The game spans 8 narrative chapters plus a minigame pair, each delivering distinct reading, playing, and visual moments. Games nest within games in this interlinked digital lethargy. Indie action fans who savor narrative exploration and meta video game tributes will connect with its structure.
Cyberside Picnic is a eulogy for the cyberian commonplace that just eluded us. A love letter to a lost future of alternative video games, delete and overwrite.
You play as a worker tasked with maintaining and assessing the efficiency of 2ELLIOT, Arteon Corporation's flagship AI behind its best digital media algorithm. Splintering and reconfiguring a decaying library of video games, you explore the fragmented terrain of our collective cyberspace through conversations with your responsibility and your partner. Uncovering who or what is really behind this algorithm, and the trauma you both share by navigating a multitude of "updated" nostalgic games and shifting text adventures.
The game contains 8 chapters of a narrative plus a minigame pair, each offering unique reading, playing, and visual experiences.
Cyberside Picnic contains games within a game within games in this digital lethargy interlinked.
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