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Endless Dark

@endlessdark.bsky.social

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Existential horror on a sleeper colony ship. Find us on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2290890/… Inquiries: endlessdarkgame (at) gmail (dot) com

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

After a long, LONG development cycle, 1.2 is ready for beta! Please give us a shot and give us feedback! store.steampowered.com/news/app/229... #indiegame #indiedev

The Endless Dark Custodian Robots meet their struggles head on, in their own ways. One breaks through barriers physically, one tenaciously does its duty, one retreats into its life's work.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Got someone who will be interested in that one

An angry bruiser robot imitates Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

nervously looking left and right, wondering if using cool-dashes outs me as a robit

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Cleanup on Aisle ANNIE, Part I - I'm so disappointed

If the ship has these cleaners—and you're PRETTY SURE it does—then why are you responsible for them? If YOU designed it, it would be straightforward and reliable. You could do more enjoyable tasks like, literally anything else. Instead, every time you see something out of place for the rest of the cycle, you send a lengthy tirade to the ship about it, literally wagging your finger at the wall, ceiling, or floor as you belt off your reprimand.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The daily grind 🦾 You get used to it. Or you suffer a psychotic breakdown. #GameDev #IndieDev #TurnBasedThursday

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Whoever did this needs to sleep with one eye open. Comin' for you, meatbag.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me scrolling the national security team group chat

A robot is followed by a shadow in a hallway

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

An #indiegame in particular can include a lot of writing if you dose things properly, and usually helps it a lot. Endless Dark originally was planned to have a limited story that we estimated at 75,000 words. Our 1.0 release was over 300k, responding to effusive feedback from fans. Pic related.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

People die cos door stuck

A robot tries to destroy a door keeping it from repairing cryostasis pods.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Your firmware provides lengthy documentation on how to withstand the pressures of custodianship. Unfortunately, your internal simulations were woefully inadequate in preparing you for the reality of the situation. You have reached your breaking point, and are moments away from a total system shutdown. You have a fleeting moment to circumvent a reboot, and that moment is now. What will you do?

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Wonderful #fanart of Annie from @windyboxman.bsky.social! Appropriate on multiple levels, if you know you know. 🤫

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The effects of this are literally written into our #indiegame. If it can happen to robots, it can happen to you! Don't let some random company give you a Psychosis hit! (Image from our wiki at endlessdark.wiki.gg/wiki/Resources, wonderfully hosted by @wiki.gg!)

Stress is one of your Custodian's mental resources, and is semi-permanent. It is built up by doing things around the ship, but also is frequently doled out by random events and difficult tasks.

At 100 Stress, the Custodian will trigger an event that lowers your Stress at a steep cost. This cost generally involves a large Psychosis gain and some number of [nsanity effects. It can also, based on the Custodian, damage the ship, end your turn early, kill Passengers, or other things.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We're a bunch of depressed robots drifting through space on a journey with no end, where all music is created from the swish-swash of doors moving and the boom-bang of our heavy metal footsteps clanging on the bulkheads, and even WE know the score with Weird Al.

After that stupid thing from Bezos and Musk about how a trillion humans would mean a thousand mozarts, it got me thinking. We clearly must HAVE mozarts today, and at least a couple of them probably got the same upbringing he did to nurture their skill and talent, and we would therefore have: A musician of significant talent, dedication, and skill, who can write music across a bunch of different contemporary genres, who explicitly draws from the work of other musicians to build their style, and who is willing to do the musical equivalent of shitposting and wear fancy outfits while doing it. I can only conclude that the modern-day Mozart is Weird Al Yankovic. I will not be taking any questions.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We launched the #wiki for our #indiegame, thanks to @wiki.gg! Finally, we have a spot where we can tear back the veil on the greatest mysteries of the void, such as the nature of the diabolical door (endlessdark.wiki.gg/wiki/Door)

Doors are the primary antagonists in Endless Dark.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

What better describes a turn than another cycle of work? And what better describes a strategic struggle than trying to scrape together a few extra points of fatigue to uncover the mysteries behind the abusive system keeping you in your place? #TurnBasedThursday #indiegame

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

After a grueling year, we are finally at 1.0 and full release! The game is also discounted for the Steam Winter sale! News post: store.steampowered.com/news/app/229... Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/2290890/... As always, your reviews, wishlists, and any feedback are direly appreciated!!!

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