Cognition Method

Cognition Method is a story-driven first-person puzzle game set in 2085, when Earth is gone and humanity survives on Mars. You play as William Mortwood, an astronaut of the Martian Academy, sent to investigate a remote space station that fell silent after bringing a mysterious Artifact aboard. The crew vanished, including William’s son, and you must uncover what happened while facing challenges that defy reason.

Puzzles and exploration

You manipulate gravity, space and perception to navigate impossible structures. Puzzles test your logic and your understanding of the world, and you can approach each from different angles to find a way forward.

The station and Artifact

You explore two contrasting environments. The space station is bright and vivid, with signs of life and the remains of the expedition; the Artifact is cold and minimalistic, with impossible geometry and silent corridors. Vast spaces and shifting architecture give the Artifact an alien, inhuman quality that feels intentional and not entirely welcoming.

A vanished expedition

Abandoned recordings and fragmented notes scattered across the station let you trace the vanished expedition and piece together a personal story about curiosity and the limits of the human mind. The game also asks what happened to those who entered the Artifact, and what part of William’s past continues to haunt him.