PAGAN: Autogeny
Release date: Oct 31, 2019
Developers: Oleander Garden
Publishers: Hex Code Coven
Genres: Indie, RPG
Categories: Single-player, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

A thousand worlds surround our own, composed of bits and bytes. When they die, where do they go; what secrets do they hide? Stumble ye, wayfarer, through the wreckage of a dead MMO. PAGAN: Autogeny is an experimental first person open world role playing game set in the digital ruins of a largely abandoned MMORPG. It is heavily inspired by long-forgotten bargain-bin 1990s adventure games, and by a general ethos of user-hostile design. Features include: Over 100 acres of lovingly handcrafted playable space An increasingly esoteric series of secret endings Five major zones + a litany of hidden areas Four idiosyncratic repeatable boss fights Over 7000 possible gear combinations Five strange and eldritch skills Very cursed gender_magick() PAGAN: Autogeny is an exercise in aesthetic maximalism — In other words, it's pretty big, at least by normal altGame standards. A full adventure will take several hours, but you can return to spawn at any point to save and exit. The game also autosaves when passing through doors, in case you have to run off in a hurry. Be sure to consult the authentically 1990s manual (enclosed in the download) for further guidance. Good luck, wayfarer, and God Speed.

Press reviews: “The fact that PAGAN manages to cultivate an exacting atmosphere of necrorealism demonstrates the game’s maturity; it’s a piece that wants you to come to terms with those negative emotions we all experience and learn to balance and love them as a part of the whole of the self.” RE:BIND “A captivating, if heavy experience, [that] has me thinking about all of the other coded worlds I used to share with friends that I’ll never to return to.” Indie Games Plus 

Notes: Contains non-sexual nudity.