Signalis

Signalis is a survival horror video game developed by rose-engine and published by Humble Games and Playism on October 27, 2022. The core gameplay consists of third-person shooter elements from a top-down 2.5D perspective, with occasional puzzle elements. Puzzles vary from manipulating switches and dials, to searching for certain frequencies to broadcast in Elster's radio implant. Difficulty and thematic elements are enhanced through the use of resource management as a gameplay and narrative mechanic. In the fashion of Resident Evil, another survival horror series, there are safe rooms that allow the player to save progress and store their items for future use. Signalis takes place during an era with space travel and advanced technology, in an unidentified planetary system that is governed by the totalitarian Nation of Eusan, which remains at war with a larger Empire that it broke away from. A consequence of using neural imprints is that Replikas inherit various idiosyncrasies from them, such as a compulsive desire to listen to music or bathe, and failure to indulge these idiosyncrasies can cause a Replika to destabilize and cease functioning. A Replika unit known as Elster awakens and searches for her missing Gestalt partner, Ariane. Some unknown amount of time later, Elster makes her way into the Sierpinski-23 mining facility through harsh snow and fog. She quickly discovers that most of the Gestalt staff is dead and the Replika workforce has gone rogue, somehow being turned into hostile, mindless beings that attack her on sight. Elster begins to explore the facility, gathering supplies and looking for clues about what happened and where Ariane may be. Elster manages to survive the fall, and continues her search, finding Adler's diary which indicates he believes the entire facility is caught within a repeating time loop. Elster delves deeper into the mines below the facility, finding that the lowest levels consist of a gigantic mass of flesh, and enters a room with a threshold where Adler despairs that he cannot pass through to find out what is on the other side. Elster crosses the threshold and finds the Penrose-512, but accidentally tears her own arm off attempting to open the airlock and passes out. While unconscious, Elster has a dream about Ariane, who asks Elster if she remembers their promise.