The Emperor Penguin Incident
Demo available
About the game
"All Antarctic researchers dead. Cause of death: Emperor Penguin attack?" Log into the isolated 'Amundsen-4' server. Extract and combine [keywords] from fragmented emails, chats, and logs to uncover the truth behind the bizarre disaster.
Original Steam description
About This Game
Deep in the minus 40-degree Antarctic interior, all communication with Chronos BioLab’s top-secret research facility, 'Amundsen-4', has been completely lost.
The final report sent to headquarters states that the entire crew has perished. The cause of this catastrophe? A ridiculous claim of an 'Emperor Penguin attack.'
You are a data archivist hired to clean up the mess.
While the corporation wants a 'plausible cover-up' to support this absurd official report, the truth you are about to face points in an entirely different direction.
You Know Nothing
There are no friendly guides or summarized clues.
Enter the provided access code and log into the station's database, where only an empty search bar awaits.
From now on, you must ask the right questions yourself.
Find and Combine Words from Texts
Carefully read through the remaining approval documents, corporate messengers, and time logs left in the system.
Spot suspicious words (names, places, objects) and drag & drop them into the search bar.
Combine two words to cross-reference and uncover hidden records and on-site audio logs that were meant to be concealed.
A Butterfly Effect Deadlier Than Monsters
This is not a simple creature thriller. It is a chilling black comedy where you observe how human selfishness and petty conflicts snowball within a confined space.
Trivial misunderstandings, greed, evasion of responsibility, and bizarre misjudgments.
You will witness every detail of how the crew's foolish mistakes—made to survive or simply to get a promotion—tangled together to drive the station to irreversible ruin.
A 2-Hour Time Attack and Multiple Endings
By the time you piece together the fragmented timeline, you will stand at a crossroads.
Based on the truth you have gathered during this short but intense 2-hour playthrough, you must make a final decision.
Will you permanently bury the traces of this absurd tragedy beneath the Antarctic ice?
Or will you accept the corporation's deceitful offer and claim a hefty reward?
The choice is yours.
Demo and release information
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