You are Joanne Saunders, a newly hired secretary at the Canadian pharmaceutical company Aster Initiative.
As dark secrets from the company begin to unravel, you decide to dig deeper and take the company down from the inside—on your work computer.
With LapetusOS, you can:
• Surf a truly authentic and colourful early internet
• Call and message a cast of unique characters • Download and manipulate videos, pictures, documents and music • Play fun minigames • Customize your desktop environment • Decipher codes and solve puzzles • Find e-mail passwords to log into accounts and snoop • Create art with PicassoPro • Avoid phone scammers and harmful virusesBut beware: your watchful supervisor doesn't tolerate slacking off.
Experience the main story and reach one of several endings or freely explore a massive fictional 1995 internet full of side objectives, memorable events, new puzzles and unlockables to customize the inside and outside of your desktop computer. The story is short but sweet. Each playthrough introduces new variables and gives the player a chance to make different decisions. No two playthroughs will be the same.
The story is short but highly replayable. Each playthrough changes variables, events, and outcomes.
The design direction for Aster Initiative is to create the most visually faithful representation of 1994-1998 computing and web design in gaming.
To accomplish this, Aster Initiative uses full HTML websites made with actual tools, rare assets and design techniques used in the 90s. We also work with computer historians and consultants to ensure Aster Initiative is authentically 90s from the inside out.
Do you want to work with us to design your own website that will appear in-game?
Aster Initiative will also feature references and parodies of real historical events. Whether you’re a 90s kid or not, it’ll feel like exploring a familiar new world.
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