Destination Ares
You're the AI of a rickety colony ship, bound for the red planet. You have limited resources, a desperate crew, and an unknown fate awaiting you. Can you survive the journey across the Big Black?
2017-09-22
About
A colony spaceship has been thrown together with old, worn parts. The crew boots up the ship's artificial intelligence as they start the arduous journey to the red planet.
You've awoken, AI. Can you keep your crew alive and survive the journey ahead?
Design your own ship. Customize everything.
Directly control the ship's systems, set alarms to get the crew's attention, and respond to emergencies. Will luck be enough?
You will die, alone and drifting, in the dark.
A single run takes less than half an hour, but success takes hours of mastery. If it comes at all.
Destination Ares is about losing power over time rather than gaining it. It's about the internal struggle instead of the external. There are no aliens or guns; just nonchalant blobs of water named Charlie.
Discover hidden, branching story arcs with several endings, ponder the meaning of existence, panic as another system breaks down, and laugh at a crew that is woefully incompetent.
Lose capability over time. You're no farmboy-turned-hero; play smarter, because you certainly won't get stronger.
You've awoken, AI. Can you keep your crew alive and survive the journey ahead?
Take Fate into Your (Digital) Hands
Design your own ship. Customize everything.
Directly control the ship's systems, set alarms to get the crew's attention, and respond to emergencies. Will luck be enough?
You will die, alone and drifting, in the dark.
Brutal and Challenging Experience
- Deep mechanics
- Simple controls
- Responsive difficulty, always Hard
- Short sessions
A single run takes less than half an hour, but success takes hours of mastery. If it comes at all.
An Uncaring World
Destination Ares is about losing power over time rather than gaining it. It's about the internal struggle instead of the external. There are no aliens or guns; just nonchalant blobs of water named Charlie.
Discover hidden, branching story arcs with several endings, ponder the meaning of existence, panic as another system breaks down, and laugh at a crew that is woefully incompetent.
Lose capability over time. You're no farmboy-turned-hero; play smarter, because you certainly won't get stronger.
Screenshots
Achievements
Anthropomorphization
Hidden
Fireball
Reach Ares in 30 days or less.
Space Station Perennial
Hidden
Veritable Tortuga
Hidden
Redside
Get to Ares, with any ending.
Ghost Ship
Hidden
The Void
Hidden
Departing Consciousness
Hidden