Psychological Survival Game Dwindle Hits Kickstarter
Dwindle is a psychological survival game set in an old 1902 American mine, has landed on Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight. A collapse has just occurred, trapping you and your crew of 23 other miners underground with limited food and supplies. You play as Bud Rook, the foreman of the mine. Your task is to guide your mining crew through the dangers and horrors of being trapped in a mine, and get them to safety.
According to the developers, you’ll face external threats like additional collapses, poisonous gas, injuries, the darkness of the mine, and more in addition to the internal threats of ever increasing stress and psychological conditions that will drive you and your miners to the brink. Through extensive and dynamic dialogue trees that change based on the situation of the mine and miner, you will be able to learn about the history of the mine, and get to know your fellow miners as relatable people that you will want to save and hate to lose.
Dwindle is set to have a number of features upon release, including:
- Lead your miners to either safety or despair: As the foreman, you must lead the diverse cast of 24 unique and relatable miners through this disaster.
- A memorable cast: Every miner has deep and impactful dialogue and their own personality and characteristics that will determine how they react in different situations.
- Dynamic Dialogue System: A true intertwining of gameplay and dialogue! The situation in the mines and a miner’s status will determine how they react in dialogue, and your actions in dialogue will help determine their status in the game!
- Thousands of Lines of Dialogue: Thousands of lines of dialogue in total ensures that no matter what path you take will always have rich and impacting dialogue.
- A tension rich atmosphere: Injuries, disease, lost miners, mine collapses, ever increasing stress, and more will hound you and your large group of miners. Can you get everyone out alive?
- Never the same story twice: Dynamically generated 3D mines and a unique AI system that changes based on player actions and world events means that no mine will have the same story.
- Moral dilemmas: What are you willing to do to ensure the survival of you and/or the group?
You can speak to miners to lower (or increase) stress, and each miner will have their own personality traits and quirks that can be uncovered through dialogue, and these traits and quirks will have to be taken into consideration when designating miners to tasks throughout the mine, as they will determine how effective each miner will perform each task. Your morality and strategies will be tested in the depths of these mines as the stress rises and the supplies begin to dwindle.
You can find Dwindle on Kickstarter here and on Steam Greenlight here.