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_archive

_archive is an experimental software granting access to a fragment of reality beyond time and space. Our system renders this universe from a human perspective. We cannot guarantee what your exploration may uncover.

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Périple Studio
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Périple Studio
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About the Game

_archive is an experimental software granting access to a space between realities including the world inhabited by Taro, a scavenger trapped between his world and the software.

Through repeated expeditions, you explore his world: strange civilizations, forgotten technologies, unstable ecosystems. It is a universe to gradually explore, interpret, and learn to navigate using the tools you may find.

Progress is built through understanding. What you learn persists between runs. Conversations reveal new paths, discoveries reshape previous ones, and places that once felt meaningless slowly become familiar.

Your objective is to understand this place, uncover the nature of the reality surrounding it, and maybe, eventually, help Taro find a way out.

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