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Cohabitation

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What is Cohabitation?

A game about learning to live as one. CONTENT WARNING: Blood, intense violence, frightening imagery, mentions of suicide, mild light flashes.

A game about learning to live as one. CONTENT WARNING: Blood, intense violence, frightening imagery, mentions of suicide, mild light flashes. NOTICE: The AI art in this game does not represent my current views on the subject. Please read this blog post for more details. 200 light years away, the planet Alkia drifts in space. It is home to not one, but two sentient species - the peaceful, technological Alkians, and the terrifying Holl, who live off hunting the former as prey. Tasked with reclaiming a radio tower to help find a planet capable of harboring life, will you help your species make their escape? Or is there a somehow a way to cohabitate? FEATURES: An engaging narrative where your actions matter. Pivotal choices as well as your underlying optimism (or cynicism) will determine which of 8 different endings you receive.Gameplay that is one part horror-puzzle, one part narrative adve

Controls

Cohabitation controls

The developer does not list specific controls on the game page. Click the play frame above and try the keyboard, mouse, or touch; most jam games show their controls on the first screen.

Questions

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What is Cohabitation?

A game about learning to live as one. CONTENT WARNING: Blood, intense violence, frightening imagery, mentions of suicide, mild light flashes.

Who made Cohabitation?

Cohabitation was made by AlgebraFalcon.

Can I play Cohabitation on mobile?

The developer does not list mobile support. It runs in a desktop browser.

From the developer

About this game

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A game about learning to live as one.

CONTENT WARNING: Blood, intense violence, frightening imagery, mentions of suicide, mild light flashes.

NOTICE: The AI art in this game does not represent my current views on the subject. Please read this blog post for more details.

200 light years away, the planet Alkia drifts in space. It is home to not one, but two sentient species - the peaceful, technological Alkians, and the terrifying Holl, who live off hunting the former as prey.

Tasked with reclaiming a radio tower to help find a planet capable of harboring life, will you help your species make their escape? Or is there a somehow a way to cohabitate?

FEATURES:

  • An engaging narrative where your actions matter. Pivotal choices as well as your underlying optimism (or cynicism) will determine which of 8 different endings you receive.
  • Gameplay that is one part horror-puzzle, one part narrative adventure, and one part dating-sim.
  • An exploration of other perspectives that lie underneath the surface.
  • Custom painted art alongside otherworldly portraits made with VQGAN+Clip.
  • An entirely unique soundtrack produced for the game made by monom.
  • Hidden secrets that can only happen by random chance.
  • A game experience more relevant than ever to our modern world.

Translation Credits Italiano (Italian) Pietro Bonardi

Made with the help of Helen Zhou, Eric Lujan, Monty Bichouna, and Shannon Kong.

Additional playtesting help from SkyTheOtherGuy, Heming Chen, BrokenBee, and Spice.

Created for the University of Chicago's Digital Storytelling class, taught by Ian Jones.

We support loading of saves from the demo! Simply hit "Continue" at the title screen and load your save from before!

Description from Cohabitation on itch.io, by AlgebraFalcon.

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