{"id":123484,"date":"2025-09-16T03:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2137743"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:18:47","slug":"a-long-journey-to-an-uncertain-end-is-an-intriguing-space-opera-with-a-touch-of-tabletop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-long-journey-to-an-uncertain-end-is-an-intriguing-space-opera-with-a-touch-of-tabletop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Journey To An Uncertain End is an intriguing space opera with a touch of tabletop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/a-long-journey-to-an-uncertain-end-is-an-intriguing-space-opera-with-a-touch-of-tabletop.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A narrative management space opera. That&#8217;s almost as much of a mouthful as the game&#8217;s title, but it&#8217;s the way developer crispy creative describes its game A Long Journey To An Uncertain End, currently running a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/crispycreative\/a-long-journey-to-an-uncertain-end-a-space-opera-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a> until March 4.<\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s a demo on Steam <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1164830\/A_Long_Journey_to_an_Uncertain_End\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The concept behind it really makes you wonder why no one has made a game like it before &#8211; the ideas are familiar, but not the tone. In the demo I played as part of a preview event, you, the captain of a spaceship, come to, only to realise you <em>are<\/em> the spaceship, a fully sentient AI only represented through a human, which you then get to design yourself in a character creator. The best thing: the assistant guiding you through this creation process and the first steps in the game is C.O.R.G.I., a holographic&#8230; well, you guessed it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-02-22-a-long-journey-to-an-uncertain-end-is-an-intriguing-space-opera-with-a-touch-of-tabletop\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-02-22-a-long-journey-to-an-uncertain-end-is-an-intriguing-space-opera-with-a-touch-of-tabletop\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A narrative management space opera. That&#8217;s almost as much of a mouthful as the game&#8217;s title, but it&#8217;s the way developer crispy creative describes its game A Long Journey To An Uncertain End, currently running a Kickstarter campaign until March 4. (There&#8217;s a demo on Steam here.) The concept behind it really makes you wonder why no one has made a game like it before &#8211; the ideas are familiar, but not the tone. In the demo I played as part of a preview event, you, the captain of a spaceship, come to, only to realise you are the spaceship, a fully sentient AI only represented through a human, which you then get to design yourself in a character creator. 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