Project Archivist

by johnnywan

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Find your way through lost messages, hidden mysteries, and your loved one's memories in our cozy little console-style search game inspired by Her Story. Find keywords, solve the mystery, and retrieve the hidden fate of the world. But beware, time is not on your side, and you must not rush through the cloud of pages archived in the TOWR Personal Archive System terminal before they cut your path off.

While some documents can be searched by matching words, most of them are hidden behind certain keywords, find and hit the correct keyword to pop these.

But beware, time is not on your side. The archive changes over time ... the system is trying to stop you, delaying you from the inevitable moment of enlightenment. Good luck :)

Play in browser on our itch.io page!

https://johnnywan.itch.io/project-archivist

Credits:

Writers: Mauve Spillard, Evan Ibarra

Artist: Evan Ibarra

Programming and level design: Johnny Wan

Genres: puzzle

Comments4

LDJam user 2789184 Apr 2022, 23:18

This game looks great and I love the idea! Unfortunately I think I hit a bug that would stop any results from returning, regardless of the word (I even tried words that had previously returned results). What I read of the story was very engaging and I wish I could have gotten further. Wonderful job overall.

Cryptomnesic5 Apr 2022, 20:12

I couldn't figure out a single key word that returned results except 'assignment', I tried probably 50 related words, wondering if there was a bug?

JohnnyWanauthor6 Apr 2022, 19:49

For people who can't proceed, try to find keywords in the first 2 documents!

Convenient_Mall7 Apr 2022, 03:19

This is Detective Heart of America: The Final Freedom, like plot to plot.

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