Aspis

Aspis is a story-driven game set in the USSR in 1987. Six volunteers enter ASPIS, an experimental system designed to predict historical events, but a year later none of them has woken up. You play as Andrey, an engineer who joined the experiment for a chance to see his deceased wife, Anna, and daughter, Liza, again. Instead of creating a controlled simulation, ASPIS opens a path to places its creators never intended to reach.

Beyond the Institute

Andrey’s journey starts at the Institute of Cybernetics and takes him far from familiar reality, through distorted versions of recognizable places, ancient structures and worlds that existed long before ASPIS was launched. The story emerges through exploration, encounters with characters, cinematic scenes, documents and records. You can also use OGAS terminals to piece together what happened during the experiment.

Andrey encounters other volunteers, the Institute Director and beings who seem more familiar with the worlds opened by ASPIS than he is. A talking Cat knows the ancient pathways but does not reveal everything it understands. In one world, Andrey meets the Devil. As he travels farther, the experiment becomes increasingly connected to the reason he entered ASPIS.

Explore and survive

Exploration gives way to chases and confrontations. The Guardian cannot simply be shot and killed: it pursues Andrey through corridors and rooms, forcing him to keep moving and find an escape. Other opponents can be fought with a Makarov pistol or melee attacks, while ammunition and other resources must be found along the way.

Use the PEP-01

The PEP-01 lets Andrey interact with Energy X by capturing and transferring it, powering machinery and changing the state of specific mechanisms. He can also use it to open astral windows between different layers of reality. These windows reveal objects that cannot be reached in one state of the world, allowing Andrey to extract them from another and use the mechanic to explore and solve spatial puzzles.

Andrey’s fate

At the finale, you make a single choice that determines Andrey’s fate and leads to one of two endings.