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Whispers From the Rift is a choice-driven sci-fi action and horror experience set in a parallel world shaped by mind control and otherworldly entities. You direct Robert Jenkins’s thoughts, actions and words, with his life and sanity at stake as your decisions shape his fate. This standalone prequel takes place fourteen years before the events of CONSORTIUM VR / Remastered, and prior knowledge of that universe is not required.

The mission

On December 21st, 2028, Robert Jenkins leads an international mission to infiltrate an illegal Japanese weapon facility in the mountains of Japan. A former Canadian military member who has worked for the Global Senate since the end of the Wars, Jenkins feels out of his depth but is inexplicably drawn to the mission. The story explores morally complex decisions and the nature of free will.

His team includes Colin Wheats, an American-born Senate operative and recruiter with long-standing connections to the Guardian Church, whose record from the Wars is well documented despite being out of action for five years. Eliska Soltz, a former Israeli Special Forces member trained in reconnaissance and infiltration, has no prior allegiance to the Senate and openly distrusts everything. Jiang Shi, a Chinese national exiled from her homeland under mysterious circumstances when she was barely twenty, knows the facility intimately and intends to disable it. The mission’s wild card is Philip Lancaster, a spy whose true nationality is unknown and whose work history is mostly redacted or buried; he has a happy-go-lucky outlook and sees life as a game whose secrets and achievements are waiting to be found.

Choices and endings

The interactive novel is around 400,000 words long and tracks well over 100 global variables, letting your choices directly shape the narrative. It draws conceptual influence from old-school D&D choose-your-own-adventure books. You can revisit any point in the past to change your commands, and see your previous choices when replaying to explore other story paths.

More than 160 unique endings include deaths, disconnects, successes and failures. Discover enough endings to unlock canon time jumps, through which you can continue influencing Jenkins’s life in the years before he joins the Consortium.

Images from Jenkins’s mind

The game includes dozens of illustrations presented as visual “brain scans” taken directly from Jenkins’s mind.