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Octopus Goulash is an open-world RPG and life simulation set in HUB 38, a vertical city of concrete and silicon above a dying Earth. As humanity moves from physical reality into vast datacenters, you wake in a Body Avatar with no registered identity, one organic brain and a voice calling from somewhere in the system. You build a life in the city while deciding how deeply to investigate its mystery.

Life in HUB 38

The city’s procedurally generated citizens have personalities, jobs and relationships, and follow daily routines between work, home and entertainment. You can talk with them about topics you learn, trade, give gifts, help, insult or threaten them. They remember your interactions, which can open opportunities or shut them off.

You also have to maintain your mechanized body by feeding and recharging it, find a place to sleep, and manage fuel, repairs and upgrades for your flying car. You can drive between districts without roads. Your needs, debts, crimes and choices continue to affect your life even when you are not pursuing the main mystery.

Work and survival

You can earn Credits as a taxi driver or Fixer, debug corrupted data flows, trade, hack, race, gamble, take illegal errands or beg when your money runs out. Your money determines your ECO class, which in turn affects which parts of HUB 38 will admit you. The city also includes homes, shops, jobs and survival needs.

Knowledge and the mystery

Places, documents and people teach you topics that become available in later conversations. Information can reveal locations, unlock quests, change relationships or provide a key to a door, making knowledge part of your progression.

The main mystery unfolds through ordinary life. You can follow a voice that should not know you and investigate corporations, insurgents, cults and artificial minds. Infiltrate forbidden places, recover impossible keys and decide whom to trust; guidance is available, but the final path depends on what you notice.

Ways to play

The game combines open-city exploration and flying-vehicle driving with hacking, combat, racing, minigames and multiple approaches to quests. Its interconnected systems include life simulation, RPG progression and an experimental narrative focused on bodies, AI and reality.