Enter Aster Initiative, the puzzle-horror game set to release sometime in 2024. That said, this game aims to take you all the way back to the 90s when the internet was still fresh and unusual. With the freedom of the new age at your fingertips, you navigate the early internet for tricks to shut down the pharmaceutical company you work for.

The Aster Initiative

Travel back to the reminiscent age of bulky 1990s desktop computers. Browse all the glitzy and questionable blogs and websites of the time whilst uncovering freakish truths and daunting mysteries. Equipped with all the early-age widgets, you have plenty of different things to interact with. Aster Initiative has bled nostalgia into its own versions of early social media like Six Degrees. Plus, their version of MS Paint, which even in modern day stood the test of time

This point-and-click horror puzzle follows unique story paths depending on the choices you make. You will be subjected to respond with a truth, a lie, a diverting topic, or an inquiry. Your new job begins quite ordinary, you are Joanne, a secretary at the Aster Initiative Pharmaceuticals. You pride yourself on a keen eye for detail, which Aster Initiative aims to challenge. Oddities and anomalies begin to creep up, and you find yourself in conversation with unnerving strangers.

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Enter yaw837. They trigger Joanne’s spiral into the rabbit hole, finding herself deep in the crevices of the unrefined internet. Mysteries are unravelled about the company you work for and now you find yourself trying to take it down, all from your work computer… Who will break first, Joanne, or Aster Initiative?

You can check out more on Aster Initiative over on Steam. Plus, if you support the game DEVs on Patreon, you can even design your own website to appear in-game! Don’t forget to browse some of our other news! The Dead Meat Trailer Presents An AI-Driven Detective Sim.