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Two minutes of it

See it move.

One night, seven floors, and every verb the building hands you on the way up.

A clerk at his desk on sub-level eleven, beneath a sign reading DATA NOT ACCESSED EVEN ONCE IN 20 YEARS WILL BE DEPRECATED

Sub-level 11  ·  03 January 2077

Nobody decides this.
Nobody objects.
It is a filing rule.

Anything nobody has opened in twenty years gets deleted, and you are the one who deletes it. A few months in, you are already good at not thinking about it.

The night

Then an envelope with no sender tells you to save one file instead.

By the time you find it, most of it is already gone. What is left is a joke, and the joke means four things at once, which is exactly why the censors let it through.

Getting to it means going up. Walk the wires. Cross between the ticks of a clock the size of a room. Ride a minute hand to the loft, time your jumps across pads that breathe, and find a way over a causeway that is not there any more.

What your hands can do

Every mission hands you one verb. Every room bends it.

Verb 01

Tether

Pull what is light to your hand, and fling yourself at what is heavy.

Verb 02

Rewind

Send one object back along its own past, and let go at the right moment.

Verb 03

Shout

Sound is force. Shove drums, trolleys, and anything else that will not listen.

Mission 07

And one way out

When the puzzles run out, the building sends its machines.

A long arcade hall, cabinets glowing pink and green down both walls

Funny first, then not.

Arcade machines pay in tokens. A customer feedback terminal wants an honest answer. A vending machine can be talked into taking a coin that stopped existing forty years ago.

Level 402  ·  The Incentive Wing

Seven floors, one night

A tower that does not want you climbing it.

Clock vaults that run on stopped time. An archive where noise is dangerous. A cutting room, a flooded mirror, a waiting room that is not what it seems.

Missions
Seven, one night, one tower
First run
About 3 to 4 hours
Languages
Ten, every spoken line subtitled
Price
Free. No ads, no microtransactions
Input
Keyboard and mouse, or controller
Platform
Windows
The broken causeway in the chronology vault A narrow bridge over a drop in the acoustic archive
A first-person view across the grounds of Takarek at sunset, machines circling over the lawn

Mission seven

When the puzzles run out, the building sends its machines.

The last of it is a running fight across the grounds, with six weapons and everything the tower taught you on the way down.

If you want to help

The game is free, and it stays free.

RaviWar 1 is the first part of a story that takes eight games to tell. I am one person, with no studio and no funding behind me, and built the traditional way a project that size would outlast me.

If you played it to the end and you are somewhere comfortable financially, you can buy me a coffee. It goes straight into making the next one.

If you are not somewhere comfortable, genuinely don't. Tell one person about the game instead. That is worth more to me than the coffee, and I mean that literally.