Digitalink

Digitalink puts you in the role of Employee 18-32, working among other employees in a room at a company that captures Kaiju—monsters—and conducts suspicious experiments on them in the name of public safety. You study a newly captured Kaiju contained in a box behind your computer. Its brain is shown imagery or icons, while your screens display a query about what appeared and the creature’s brainwave readings through the Brain Wave Reading system (BWR).

Answer the queries

You have limited time to highlight a tile that matches the query and press A to confirm your answer. Queries combine properties such as direction, colour, letter case and logical conditions. For example, “red and not right” asks for a red tile that is not on the right, while “up or right” can have several correct answers. If no tile in the current matrix matches, you need to look in other matrices.

You are fired after three mistakes, and running out of time also counts as a mistake. Each session can present a new game because the creature’s brain map is procedurally generated.

Shared consequences

The work is a team effort: if any employee in the room makes a mistake, everyone is exposed to mental images. The Kaiju can attack employees’ minds, making them see or hear things that are not real or present. You study the monster rather than fight it or run from it, while the game leaves open what is really happening.