The Invincible Deluxe Edition

The Invincible is a first-person science fiction story adapted from Stanisław Lem's novel, and it keeps his tone: curious, unhurried, and not very reassuring. The setting is atompunk — a 1960s that got nuclear spaceflight instead of microchips, all vacuum tubes, dials and heavy metal casings. You play Yasna, an astrobiologist on Regis III looking for the missing crew of the ship Invincible. There is no combat. The game is built from walking, driving a rover, reading telemetry off period instruments, and talking over the radio with someone whose account of events keeps shifting. What you find on the planet is not hostile in any way a weapon would help with, and the game is mostly interested in whether you keep pushing to understand it or decide some things should be left alone. Choices accumulate quietly and the story has around eleven endings. Developed by Starward Industries and published by 11 bit studios. The Deluxe Edition adds a digital soundtrack, an artbook and a comic set in the same world. None of it changes the game itself — it is supporting material for a story people tend to want more of.