A Better World

A Better World is a time-travel game in which you work for ABW Company, changing historical events through assignments. Use the company’s Computer to travel across centuries, from the Jurassic period to the Space Race and from Ancient Greece to the French Renaissance.

Change history

Each assignment asks you to make decisions at key moments in history, then examine their consequences and make different choices on another attempt. You might try to stop JFK’s assassination, give the nuclear bomb to Gandhi or send humanity to Mars rather than the moon. Your choices can produce different outcomes, and you can restart assignments to pursue a better ending.

The assignments set objectives but leave you to decide how to meet them. For example, if you are asked to change someone’s life from ordinary to extraordinary, you could make them a movie star, a cut-throat businessman or the first female president of the USA.

Your career at ABW

The HR Team evaluates each completed assignment and gives you an employee score. A high enough score grants access to higher floors of the office building, while poor performance can limit your progress. The building has a 7th floor to reach.

Globos, the company’s virtual assistant, guides you through assignments and answers questions. She is also programmed to tell jokes. The office is designed in a retro-futurist style, with distractions such as plants, organic fruit and foosball tables removed.

A screen reader is enabled by default when the game first launches, and you can turn it on or off in the settings.