The Descendant
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The story turns on an extinction-level catastrophe, the deaths of survivors, and a buried conspiracy, with named characters dying as the plot unfolds.
Characters face life-threatening peril and death within a collapsing survival facility, but harm is not shown in graphic detail and there is no gore.
Occasional mild profanity appears in the characters' dialogue.
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What it is
The Descendant is a story-driven, episodic point-and-click adventure set after a climate catastrophe has forced the last of humanity into sealed underground 'Ark' shelters. Play alternates between two timelines — a maintenance worker trapped in a flooding facility and an investigator sifting through the aftermath — as choices and puzzle-solving gradually uncover a conspiracy inside Ark-01. The tone is a bleak sci-fi mystery about survival and sacrifice: characters die and the stakes are the fate of the species, but there is no action combat, and violence is limited to story deaths shown without graphic detail. Dialogue carries occasional mild profanity. It is a single-player narrative game with no online play, chat, or purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames its material as a somber survival mystery, presenting the collapse of the world and the moral compromises made to preserve humanity as dilemmas the player weighs through dialogue choices rather than events it glorifies. Death and betrayal are treated as consequences to be reckoned with, and the branching decisions ask the player to consider who is worth saving.
Details
- Developer
- Gaming Corps AB
- Publisher
- Microids Indie
- Released
- Mar 24, 2016
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