SCP-6634: where the flood couldn't reach.
A disastrous expedition into a cave housing a rather mundane anomaly that supports a subterranean ecosystem cut off from the world during the Ordovician. Study your environment as you await your rescue.
This is a small vaguely nekoatsume-like game with less waiting and more speculative evolution. There are currently 15 possible species all descended from ancient animals including strange anomalocaris relatives, cephalochordates, crinoids, and more.
This game is also a real, mainlist SCP. You can play on the SCP wiki here. You can do all sorts of fun things on the SCP wiki! Like all SCPs, it is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. I'm putting it here too so I can add downloadable versions and so it's more accessible to a wider audience. This was also a gift for Guaire in the 2023 SCP Wiki Art Exchange!
There is a long list of credits for this game so I'd highly suggest clicking the license box on the SCP wiki page or viewing the credits in the game itself because I can't collapse text on itch.io and I don't want this to be too long.
The code for this game is publicly available and can be found here.
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I got to the end of the game and it said I hadn't discovered anything, but I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to do. Nothing in the inventory combines and there doesn't appear to be any way to use inventory items outside of the inventory. If there are additional controls a mention of it in the description would be helpful. I played through twice and nothing changed. Left the safe area multiple times, examined the water pool multiple times, still no way to combine items and no other items to pick up, no way to use items outside of the inventory, ect. If there is something else to do here or some other way to do it it really is not obvious.
Playing the browser version btw. Also, I want to make it clear that I left the safe area and examined the pool several times inbetween each rest. The only thing that ever changed was the body disappeared and I was never prompted with any way to use any of the items I had in the inventory (which after resting was only the water bottle and the tablet). I tried clicking literally everything several times each and nothing happened. Like, I'm just really trying to make it clear that I did absolutely everything that would have been obvious to do. I've played a lot of adventure games over the years, I'm not new to the genre, I understand how they work, so I'm really trying to make it clear here that something is amiss beyond basic user-error.
Did you try to place any of the bait down? A ton of people have done this successfully already and I haven't updated the game since then so it shouldn't have broken. I'll still take a look at it when I get home, though.
Nothing at all happens when I click the bait box. It gives me some descriptive text that tells me there is food in there but there is absolutely no option as far as I can see which would allow me to retrieve anything from the chest to place down anywhere.
Oh that's not the bait I was talking about.
Did you break off the tea lily filter and drop the veiner worm?
It's been a while now since I tried it, but as I said before I was not able to do absolutely anything outside of read the descriptive text for things. There was no options whatsoever for me to actually use or manipulate anything inside or outside of the inventory. I will try again with a different browser or perhaps with adblock and my personal userscripts disabled to see if it makes any difference later this evening. I don't want you to think I am being completely negative though. I do love the aesthetic of it and what I was able to experience had a great mood, it's just I wasn't able to do anything besides the most basic playthrough.
Nice game, I managed to find 9 species
The description of the species is a little misleading, at first I thought it would be possible to use the sharp species to scrape food 😆
Aww shoot. Maybe I've gotta add something like that in the future, haha.
Nice game, dude! Looks very interesting