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These Starless Skies

A team of planetary scientists must confront their personal demons and unravel the enigma of a mysterious tidally-locked planet, all before their inner chaos takes over in this sci-fi point and click adventure.

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A team of planetary scientists must confront their personal demons and unravel the enigma of a mysterious tidally-locked planet, all before their inner chaos takes over in this sci-fi point and click adventure.

AN INTERSTELLAR SPACE EPIC
Experience the game’s existential narrative through the perspective of the 6 different crew members, including playable flashbacks set on a futuristic Earth that give perspective into their complex personalities and inner demons.

CINEMATIC 2.5D ENVIRONMENT
Immerse yourself in a cinematic 2.5D environment blending pixel art and 3D, and showcasing the planet’s vastly contrasting climates and organisms – one side a blazing hot desert bathed in perpetual sunlight, the other an icy landscape in eternal darkness, and in between, the twilight zone, forever dusk.

POINT AND CLICK ADVENTURE
From using futuristic equipment to collect planetary samples, to investigating suspicious clues, to interacting with a brutal environment to survive - use investigative point and click gameplay and engaging dialogue choices to take you from relaxed exploration to thrilling moments in pivotal scenes.