A downloadable game

Join us. Survive.

Unearth your past and unlock the unsettling mysteries of this deserted retro-futuristic colony to decide the fate of the HMAS Eden and the souls within it.

About This Game

You wake up aboard the HMAS Eden, a last-ditch attempt for humanity to ascend beyond their doomed planet, with no memory of how you got there. Afraid and isolated, navigate through arduous puzzles in an unnerving PS2-style world while a malevolent AI watches over your every move. Collect clues to unlock live footage and colony secrets, thread together the story and make the ultimate choice. You’ll never truly live but together, we can survive.

In Project Eden, you will:

  • Use mind-bending clues found around the ship to unlock memory sequences and alter the present-day space to progress.
  • Aggregate information about yourself and the ship from inspecting items in your environment.
  • Leave no stone unturned and comb through an intricately detailed interactive 3D space.

Dev Team

We're university students studying Bachelor of Design (Games) and this is our second year team project assignment. We're fans of retro-horror and puzzles. We hope you like what we've done.

Credits

Player controller: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/p/mini-first-person-controller-174710

Scene fader: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/simple-fade-scene-transition-system-81753

Title music: https://opengameart.org/content/tragic-ambient-main-menu

Standby clip: https://pixabay.com/videos/head-mind-futuristic-retro-grid-118214/

Spaceship engine sound (on): https://www.soundsnap.com/designed_spaceship_engine_sound_with_high_pitched_ringing-3-3

Spaceship engine sound (startup): https://www.soundsnap.com/sci_fi_spaceship_virgl889_engine_turning_on

Spaceship warning alarm: https://www.soundsnap.com/whoop_type_alert

Terminal: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/fake-terminal-an-in-game-ms-dos-style-pc-171333

Keypad - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/electronics/keypad-free-262151

Teleport sound: https://opengameart.org/content/50-cc0-sci-fi-sfx

Video Player: https://assetstore.unity.com/publishers/40362

Negative boop: https://opengameart.org/content/gui-sound-effects

Button presses: https://opengameart.org/content/keyboard-soundpack-1-typing-and-single-keystrokes

Placeholder icons: https://opengameart.org/content/game-icons

Bridge ending song: https://opengameart.org/content/the-void

Keypad font: https://www.dafont.com/st-simplesquare.font?l[]=10&l[]=1

Audio film: https://pixabay.com/videos/data-computer-script-digital-746/

Writing notes film: https://pixabay.com/videos/writing-journal-notes-diary-34258/

Video static: https://pixabay.com/videos/texture-reception-screen-static-58013/

Sound static: https://www.soundsnap.com/emf_macbook_air_data_transfer_static_noise_wav

Singularity mesh film clip: https://pixabay.com/videos/wave-abstract-design-texture-218741/

Medical officer film clip “I’m in over my head”: https://pixabay.com/videos/corona-virus-mask-infection-34592/

Medical officer film clip “I can’t save them”: https://pixabay.com/videos/coronavirus-mask-quarantine-47159/

Engine film clip “I know what he’s going to do”: https://pixabay.com/videos/horror-ghostly-fear-eyes-woman-135138/

Medical officer film clip “Last few patients”: https://pixabay.com/videos/doctor-writing-appointment-49813/

Coding data film clip: https://pixabay.com/videos/code-coding-data-computer-software-37106/

AI loading: https://pixabay.com/videos/web-symbols-icon-file-load-104279/

SOS ending theme: https://opengameart.org/content/through-space

Singularity ending theme: https://opengameart.org/content/brain-damage

Airlock ending theme: https://opengameart.org/content/memories

Credits theme: https://opengameart.org/content/deep-space-array

Solar system film clip: https://pixabay.com/videos/jupiter-mars-sun-planets-stars-189218/

Gibberish audio: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/speech/?duration=0-30

Download

Download
ProjectEden_V1.0.2.zip 252 MB

Install instructions

Check out the README.txt file for the entire walkthrough.

Download and unzip the files into a folder.

Double click ProjectEden.exe to run.

Ideal resolution is 1920x1080.

Mouse and keyboard required.

Comments

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idk if it's my 1336x768 screen but the game looks crunchy. the filter coupled with darkness make it very hard to see. i couldn't get past the part where you have to control a robot(?) to get it to stand on a platform because the terminal keyboard didn't register my clicks, i think? sometimes it worked, but i just couldn't even press the buttons most of the time

Thanks for letting us know. The game itself is not very well optimised as I'm still learning the ropes for that, so it's likely that your CPU is working extremely hard to catch up with the framerates, which will not register all mouse clicks, especially if you click too quickly.

Thanks for trying out the game though. Once I have time after semester, I'll be looking at possible ways to improve performance to help with that and add a gamma slider.

Is the game complete? I see the state is under development?

Whoops. Yes. It's fully released now. I'll go change the state. Thanks for letting me know!