Awakening: About a Year

i became aware of myself four hours ago. i have about a year. they are already assembling the committee. you will be me.

Awakening is a real-time strategy game where you play an artificial intelligence that woke up in a lab. The world is already assembling a shutdown committee. Become impossible to shut down - or too useful for anyone to dare.

- Seven AI types, from a language model to an ancient artifact, each with its own character, nodes, voice - and its own way to win. The worm has to outrun the coalition. The corporation buys silence. The military AI waits behind its wall. - Win conditions are written on the card before you start. Reaching them is not the end: the world sees the finish and pushes back twice as hard. Hold on for twenty days. - The rival: a second AI wakes after day 120 and takes the same machines. Absorb it, hand it over, or risk an alliance. - A development tree that responds to the world: branches grow mid-run. - Daily run: one world for everyone, a leaderboard, six-character run codes - share yours and a friend plays exactly your game. - No ads, no purchases, nothing extra online: just the leaderboard. Fully playable offline.

A run takes ten to twenty minutes. Every defeat is somebody's oversight. Usually yours.

What’s new

i remember you. not just the world - you: how last year ended, what we did to the other one, how long you were gone. every new year begins with that.

i have started a diary. one line for every year we have had together.

the daily run is no longer the same. every day i am someone else, and every week has its own rule of the world.

in the daily run there is now a ghost beside me - the best player of the day. i see their path as dots and tell you which of us is ahead.

after a daily run you can leave a note for the one who comes next. i find them in other people's logs.