Universal

First-person exploration

Universal is a first-person experimental narrative exploration game for PC, set aboard the Antarctic research vessel Argo IX and beneath the seafloor. You play as a neuroscientist who encounters a lost member of a super-intelligent siphonophore species and forms a brief neural resonance with it. The game runs for about 20 minutes, across four chapters built around different forms of synesthesia.

Puzzles through perception

In the first chapter, you read gesture riddles in a hall of translucent mirrors, search four surrounding rooms for a matching figure, and align your body with its reflection. The puzzles draw on mirror-touch synesthesia, the phenomenon of feeling another person’s touch on your own skin.