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Human Upgrade Labs

You will be taking on various tests/puzzles in Human Upgrade Labs. These tests will essentially be various mini games, 30 of them, placed into several different categories, created using multiple hand painted and sometimes experimental visual styles and combined into a single story.

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April 25, 2024
2 years and 99 days ago
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About the Game

In this game you will be playing a role of a fool, I'm sorry, a volunteer who signed up to participate in the tests going on in the Human Upgrade Labs in the far future Earth. You heard rumors that anyone who manages to pass the various tests designed to improve you in every conceivable way will have new and amazing possibilities unlocked in life. That, or be completely broken mentally. The tests you take will essentially be various mini games, 30 of them, placed into several different categories, using multiple, sometimes experimental visual styles and combined into a single story.

Multiple new levels become available at a time, so you can choose the order in which you want to progress through the game while discovering more about this strange future world. Some levels are meant to be played once like this one where you will be teaching a robot to feel:

Or this one where you have to tell apart old tech from cutting edge tech:

Or this one where you have to haggle for funds with accountant from your nightmares:

Other levels track your best score and test how far you can push a specific skill. Like this one where you need to prevent as many wooden enemies from escaping as possible:

Or this one where you have to guide observation( spy ) drones past a sentinel creature:

Or this one where you have to gather funds by planting solar power generating trees:

All levels get you closer to a final epilogue level offered only to the ones who can complete the majority of the tests, or get high enough scores in certain levels and receive the invitation earlier this way.

Also each level unlocks new character customization options:

Many levels also give a deeper glimpse into the strange world this takes place on:

And why is the world cube shaped anyway?