Terminal Connection

Terminal Connection is a game about doomscrolling. You fly a plane through hyperreal landscapes, staying close to surfaces to keep its engine running.

You begin in a cozy airplane hangar, seated in a cockpit. As you start the flight, a glowing cave appears around you. After completing flight checks and testing the controls, you glitch through disorienting spaces where terms and conditions pass by, an advertised love is demanded of you, your interests are weaponized at work, and you face visceral vulnerability. As space collapses, you fly into a seemingly endless void.

The game examines how mass media creates layers of abstraction between people and objective reality, and how monetary incentives shape those influences. Its flight and shifting environments aim to evoke the effects of invasive social media and portray cycles of oppression within capital-driven platforms. The game presents leaving as a first step out of that cycle.