Ceiba

Ceiba is a biopunk visual novel set on an unfriendly alien planet, where artificial servants called Artifites live beneath the broad crown of the space garden «Ailanthus». In the distant future, people consider human lives too precious to risk exploring deep space, so Artifites carry out that work instead.

Ein and the expedition

Ein, a young Artifite explorer, feels a vague longing. He does not know when the expedition began or why it has yet to reach its goal. While the crew remains stranded on the planet, he decides to pursue a relationship with a woman he has in mind. Their encounters in the wardroom and at crew lunches seem to offer a straightforward start, but she is cold and unfriendly, and is obsessed with exploring abandoned alien ruins beneath the planet’s clouds. Those ruins have begun to respond to her.

A voiced, animated story

Professional actors from the Dream Cast Team voice the game’s characters. Its presentation uses parallax effects, animated backgrounds and facial animations synchronized with speech, and its world is built around plant technology.

The soundtrack was made for the game by the duo Synthelligence, who describe their music as «melodic sci-fi». The adult story draws on ideas based on scientific research.