Game Features

## Mechanics

In Endoparasitic, everything is mouse controlled: the player moves the player character, Cynte's, body by using their mouse to control his single remaining arm. Movement of his arm is used to move Cynte's body around, grab items, save your game, and choose which weapon is used to attack enemies. Players must also use their mouse to manually reload weapons, which are loaded one bullet (or crossbow arrow) at a time.

The player's healthbar is represented by the progress of a parasite moving towards the player's brain. Enemies dealing damage will cause the parasite to progress closer towards the brain, resulting in fatality when the parasite finally reaches the brain. When the parasite is dangerously close to the brain, the screen will flash red. Health can be restored through the use of vaccines.

Saves are located at various places in the game. Each individual save point takes up to one minute to recharge. Moving onto a new section (represented by passing through a black tunnel at the end of each section) will result in loading back at the start of that section, unless the player has saved further into that particular section.

Inventory for ammunition is limited, but additional inventory slots can be picked up throughout the game.

Achievements & Updates to the game.

## Gameplay

There are three kinds of gameplay present in the game: combat, stealth, and puzzles.

Combat: Once the revolver is obtained, players can choose between evading enemies or shooting them with weapons. Three more additional weapons (the double barrel shotgun, the flare gun, and the crossbow) can be obtained throughout the game, each with their own advantages. Multiple mutated enemies are available to fight, as well as boss fights. The final boss cannot be evaded.

Stealth: In sections with mutated corpses, players are instructed by a note to move slowly so as to avoid being dealt damage. To avoid attracting attention from the mutated lab monkey, the player must also move slowly, due to its sensitive hearing. The crossbow may be used to silently deal damage to enemies, so as to avoid drawing attention from the mutated corpses or lab monkey. Furthermore, the hunter cannot be killed outside of the final boss, and must be vigilantly avoided.

Puzzles: Various lock-boxes containing either vaccines or different kinds of ammunition can be found throughout all three levels of the game. Players must match the pin pairs of the lock-boxes by depth to unlock them and obtain the item(s) inside.

There is an additional mini-game in the beginning of the game, in which the player must use a clothing iron to cauterize their wounds.

## Story & Characters

The game takes place at a top-secret research facility on a remote asteroid. This research facility has three levels: labs, maintenance, and reception. A change between levels is denoted by music playing when the player enters each new area. Computer logs and handwritten notes can be found throughout all three levels of the game to give the player directions, as well as in-universe context/lore.

The premise of the game is simple: You are a scientist at this facility, where a mass exposure to alien parasites has occurred. Three of your limbs are torn off by mutated monsters. You must use your wits and one arm to survive and salvage your research.

There are three named characters within the game: Cynte, Praví, and Luce.

### Cynte

Cynte is the main character of Endoparasitic, as well as the player character. Despite having three of his limbs torn off, he is determined to save his research at all costs, including purposefully stopping the facility evacuation protocols. He is the lead parasitologist at the facility, and has an extreme disdain and disregard for his associate researcher, Praví, and his receptionist, Luce. He additionally does not seem to care for the research board, as he demands Luce cancel a meeting with them that she made on his behalf, before contacting him. Cynte has no issue experimenting on animal life forms (such as fruit flies, rats, and monkeys) to determine the effects of the parasites. He is enthralled by the parasites' ability to bestow "godlike" abilities upon a specific host, and considers proposing to the research board that a mass exposure to the parasites amongst humans ought to take place, in order to further determine the effects of the parasites. Cold and egotistical, Cynte values his own intellect above all others, and believes that his intellect and extreme scientific conviction make him the only one who could be worthy of being the parasites' host. Cynte is a follower of Cnawl, the god of cognition and skill.

Cynte is voiced by Gianni Matragrano.

**Spoilers:** Cynte is left on the research facility, while the game ends with a 'to be continued...'

### Praví

Praví is one of the other named characters in Endoparasitic; he appears in computer logs and handwritten notes, as well as in one voiced cutscene. He is the associate researcher, and the one who develops the temporary vaccines against the parasites that are scattered throughout the facility. He agrees with Luce that human mass exposure to the parasites would be unethical, and demands that Cynte not propose this concept to the research board.

**Spoilers:** Praví is left for dead by Cynte, as Praví is trapped with the mutated lab monkey and cannot escape due to a broken airlock door, and Cynte believes that Praví must have been the one to let the parasites out.

Praví is voiced by Anthony Phan.

### Luce

Luce is Cynte's receptionist. She expresses upset towards Cynte experimenting on the lab rats, and appears to agree with Praví that human mass exposure to the parasites is unethical. She feels underappreciated and out of place at the facility, and experiences a vision from her deity, Pyeridae (the goddess of light and love) about the parasites. Luce serves as the more emotional and intuition driven counterpart to Cynte's cold analytical intelligence.

Luce is voiced by Dacey Else.

**Spoilers:** Luce is chosen by the parasites to be their host. She is the one who releases them within the facility, and escapes to Earth using the facility's space shuttle, purposefully leaving Cynte to die from the parasite infecting him.