Welcome, Player 1.

You've arrived in a world where humanity is caught in an existential crisis.

The doomsday clock is ticking. But no one is acting. With no visible way out, you and a scrappy band of rebels set out to discover a hidden escape mechanism to avert our species annihilation.

On your journey, you begin to notice cracks — blips — glitches in the systems governing human life. You start to question the hidden coordinates of your reality. You start to dream of a new operating system for Planet Earth.

A new grand narrative. A set of ideas so fundamental, so systemic, so profound that a sane sustainable future is unthinkable without them. A scheme to break out of the global sleep?

Could this be the escape mechanism you and your comrades have been looking for?

Could having crazy, fuckitall fun on eight critical fronts be the secret to winning the planetary endgame?

The stakes are higher than ever. But there's only one way to find out.

Play on.
Octopus

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