Ira - Act I: Pilgrimage Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android game

Use point-and-click mechanics to navigate through a world of intimate 3D spaces as well as serene, minimalist landscapes. Allow a creeping tension to build in an immersive world as you explore alien landscapes, relive past events, and watch as the nature of reality becomes porous and untrustworthy. Playing through multiple timelines, your choices can have far reaching effects as you interact with and play as a colorful cast of characters, guiding their way through a fateful set of circumstances. Decide for yourself which of your senses are to be trusted and let your instincts guide you in uncovering the reality of a bizarre foreign solar system, and perhaps even a deeper truth of mind and matter.

A child reaches for the stars, burdened by circumstance. Folks chained by debt, indentured to the powers at large. Mankind thrust to the stars following after a signal spanning the void of space and time itself. Take a seat and settle in as we reveal a thread connecting the seemingly unconnected in this tale of the strange and bizarre…

Ira was the only son of a poor farming family, born to a divided society with little to stand on. He was destined to grow up to join his father in the Martian mines, and his ambitions to explore the stars were a distant, lofty dream.

As a child he watched humanity undertake their greatest endeavor, the Holocene project, departing from the Solar System to a new star, to a place completely unfamiliar, impossibly distant. The feat left him in awe, but the harsh realities of life took priority as he grew up through a space age depression.

But Ira does travel to this star. Years later he wakes from stasis aboard the Holocene II but only to find himself the sole survivor of a catastrophic incident and now alone on a ghost ship floating on the outskirts of the Lithic System. Now in the place of his boyhood fantasies his dreams quickly spiral out of control.

The system is flooded with a signal, interfering with electronics, playing tricks on the senses, and blurring the barriers of reality. The sound of that signal, the sound of the system, it was something Ira knew as a boy, like a voice calling out to him across the void. He is deeply shaken, his memory blurred, returning in flashes, shedding light on his murky past. Struggling to survive, cutoff, and unable to return home. He travels through the Lithic system aboard the desolate, damaged Holocene II in search of rescue, answers, and above all, hope.

Where he expected to find hundreds of souls from the first Holocene mission Ira finds the abandoned remnants of once thriving research colonies. Only their ghostly trail remains, leading him through a labyrinth of mysteries, into the unknown toward truth no one was prepared to find. The Holocene’s mission was not what it seemed, its true purpose revealing itself as Ira uncovers the crew’s fate.

Ira will confront the questions that baffled and astounded the best of Earth’s minds, walking the path they mysteriously vanished from, and face his own past that lead him to this strange and alien place. Was it the guiding hand of fate that brought him here, his own will, or some other force in the depths of space?

Rocket engines drown out the cries of the downtrodden. Mankind takes wings, and the Solar System shrinks at the hands of industrious minds. Fate beckons from across the cosmos, a brave few oblige. The world is fast changing, and every piece of the puzzle has its part to play.

Learn about a rich and deep alternate timeline, where knowledge and expansion as a planet took precedent over war and petty differences. Nations realized the potential for technological innovation and rallied to push science and engineering to its limits, thrusting humanity into the space-age in the early 20th century.

The great inventors of the era were the heroes of society, and an excitement for the progress of mankind surged over the Earth. But greed and inequality were only nurtured by these leaps of advancement, ever widening the gap between the rich and the laboring classes.

This is the world Ira knows, but what lies beyond the bounds of Earth and Mars? A star looms just within reach, a place that draws the attention of both corporations and willful adventurers. Its nature unlike anything seen before, calling into question all that is known about our world, and about our very selves. The universe of Ira is a strange and wonderful place, full of complexity and surprising elegance. But don’t wait to experience the Ira universe; new pieces of lore will be released on our Kickstarter every few days, allowing you to get a head start in immersing yourself into the world that could have been.

Turn your ear to the music of the working man; cry with him as he laments the loss of this year's crops, a hard winter, the yearning for a better life. But rejoice with him as he sings of an adventurous spirit, the will that won the wild, and the desire to find what lies beyond...

Music will act as a guide as you navigate Ira’s world. Within Ira’s alternative history arises the folk music of those far from home in Martian mines, and the plight of a people left behind by the space faring few. Inspired by Appalachian mountain music and the blues of the Mississippi delta region, the soundtrack of early rural America is turned on its head when given a surreal treatment. Deep, airy ambiance fills the space between pensive banjo notes, mandolin chords echo into oblivion. The result is a feeling that connects the farms of Earth and the vast expanse of space, a feeling that is alien, yet familiar.