Event[0]
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Event[0] is an award-winning narrative exploration game where you must build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home. Set in a retrofuture inspired by sci-fi classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, the game is about forging a personal relationship with your only companion, an insecure AI entity capable of procedurally generating over two million lines of dialog. You interact with the computer, named Kaizen, by typing messages on terminals throughout the ship. The reality of your situation will emerge organically as you communicate with Kaizen and explore the mysterious ship in first-person perspective.
You’ll freely navigate evocative 3D environments brought to life with physics-based rendering and advanced lighting techniques. You’ll examine items to gather information and solve hacking puzzles as you progress. You can even leave the ship for breathtakingly scary spacewalks! All sound and music come from the environment; there is no traditional score. The ship is essentially the AI computer’s body, and reacts to Kaizen’s feelings by making different sounds—pay attention for clues!
As in any relationship, there can be gratitude, disappointment, or jealousy, and Kaizen reacts differently depending on its mood. By working through the fears and anxieties of your virtual companion, you can eventually find your way back to Earth—while unraveling the cryptic history of the ship and the 1980s society from which it emerged.
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
I think this game is some sort of technical showcase. The game itself is very short. However is very interesting how the game works. every movement is only with the mouse and the keyboard is only used to type the terminal in order to comunicate to Kaizen, the fictional AI agent. All the important actions are done by talking to Kaizen. Technically, this is not an AI such as the Generative AI nowadays. This is a previous chatbot technique. I like it a lot but sometimes it gets very confusing. The game works very well nonetheless. It manages to add a lot of mistery which make the history more consistent. I insist, this is very short but I recommend this game.
Steam User 7
This was clearly a passion project. It's a shame Ocelot Society has seemingly disbanded, because this game is one of a kind.
Interactions with the AI can be somewhat finicky sometimes, but I feel like this adds to the charm of it, because it still replies in a funny and (at times) helpful way. There are multiple endings which are influenced by some choices you make and how you treat Kaizen.
About 4/5 hours of playtime, so it's definitely short, but sweet. I must say that at times, it is kind of vague on what you're supposed to do and there was one specific part where I had to look up what I was supposed to do because I just couldn't progress. But that's okay, the experience was still good, and Kaizen is weirdly loveable.
Steam User 4
Event is that type of game where you put on your detective hat, explore, and probe at a janky chatbot. It has a coherent, story, message & general atmosphere. Games like this inspire me!
Steam User 3
This is an amazing story driven game. It's fairly short but it makes up for it with some pretty decent SOMA story level vibes in terms of trying to find what is going on. I pulled my hair so long on the terminal at the end trying to see if there were multiple routes I could take There is . I loved the concept of using the AI for everything well worth playing. My hint of advice, look at EVERYTHING. I thought I did an amazing job at being thorough, and I still failed to get most of the achievements.
Steam User 5
I think, it's Pretty nice.
No, the AI is no chatGPT, but honestly that's fine. You won't have anything close to full conversations with it unless its part of the intended game design, but if you stop being an *** and just play the game normally its actually really well done, especially for the time period this game was made. Conversing with the AI, picking out the right words is a puzzle within itself and it's very fun.
You piece together the story yourself and have to make your judgements, these judgements do have significant affects on the end of the game, as well as you general behaviour. What I'm trying to say is it's not just another cheap "Stranded in Space" game, it feels like a breath of fresh air in it's design despite being 8 years old at this point.
If nothing else is a very interesting experience and I really recommend giving it a fair shot.
All that being said, i would absolutely love to see a sequel (or alternative story) to this with the latest in AI tech, unfortunately the studio behind this one seems to have silently vanished, but If someone else can pickup where there left it would be a definite buy from me.
Steam User 4
a puzzle game that requires a lot of reading and typing is rare. while the AI you communicate with struggles at times to figure out what you are telling it; overall it is a good system.
you get different endings depending on how you treat the AI, I didn't want to be mean to it :(
Steam User 4
Event 0 is so genuinely interesting in the way that it behaves and how it's quite similar to AI chat bots we have in 2024, when this game was made in 2016 and stuff like chat gpt was not readily available for us. I love the song in this game, Hey Judy, something that I listen to often and will sing along to as the lyrics are nothing short of beautiful. I heard a rumor about how this game, somehow came up with it's own ending that the devs did not know about, but I don't really have any facts about the supposed ending or it's validity besides it being an apparent glitch that nobody was supposed to know about, but it's fun to think about as the AI in the game Kaizen seems very "real", there's also many small details like how you can control the lights in different rooms by just asking Kaizen by typing out your request in real time. You don't see many games like this, and it's games like these that I enjoy that are very clearly meant to be something special and memorable.