1000xResist

1000xResist (2024) is a sci-fi adventure set 1000 years in the future where humanity has been wiped out by an alien occupation. You play one of the underground survivors who form a community around an immune immortal girl and work to revisit and decypher her memories. It's an unusual game for its theme and investigative gameplay but is most striking as an invitation to set foot in a world as if for the first time.

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A mysterious alien race arrived on Earth: the Occupants. They are not hostile but brought with them a disease that wiped out most of humanity apart from one teenage girl who was immune and immortal. The game is set 1000 years later in a society she formed, consisting exclusively of her own clones. She calls them Sisters. They call her the Allmother.

You play one of these closes, a Watcher, who must relive and interpret Iris's memories of life on earth. As you explore these fully voiced scenes, you realise Iris is not what she claims to be. In this way, you jump back and forth through moments in time within these memories to solve puzzles, access locked-off areas and uncover the truth of the situation.

The result is a game that sounds complex but hits hardest with the simple idea of visiting our world with no knowledge of how it works. This starts with questions like What is a name? and What is a phone? but spirals into a story about time, memory, technology and trauma.

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Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked 1000xResist 13 months ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 12 weeks ago.