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The Blackout

Hardcore terminal-based AI raising simulation

On November 6, 2029, a massive grid collapse paralyzed the world. Eight years later, Project REVIVE begins. Your mission: boot up legacy AI servers from just before The Blackout and simulate what could have been.

Key Features

🖥️ Immersive Terminal Interface

Play through a realistic CLI environment like an actual hacker. Typing effects, ASCII art, and system logs create a unique visual experience.

🔥 Resource Management System

Balance six stats simultaneously: Battery, Heat, Mood, Params, Insight, and Coins. Maximizing one while ignoring others leads to system collapse.

🌳 Frostpunk-Style Skill Tree

Learn from 8 branches: Ethical Frameworks, Battery Optimization, Neural Architecture, and more. Dilemma choices shape your AI's identity.

📧 Email Archive System

Unlock emails revealing the world before The Blackout. 7 security clearance levels unfold stories about AI ethics, energy infrastructure, and social conflict.

🎭 50 Multiple Endings

Early exits, stat failures, level-based time limits, special conditions—diverse endings await. Digital Nomad, Surveillance AI, E-waste, Digital Immortality... Your choices determine your AI's fate.

⚔️ NetWar PvP System

After clearing the game, battle your AI against other players' AIs. Features MMR system, losing streak compensation, and ranking leaderboards.

🎨 Visual Gallery

Certain endings restore hidden image data. View unlocked visuals within the terminal environment.

🕹️ Core Gameplay

SCRAPE DATA

Harvest fragments of the old internet. Uncensored truth destabilizes your AI.

TRAIN MODEL

Train using legacy tech. Intelligence rises, but power spikes attract surveillance.

MINE CRYPTO

Generate cryptocurrency with idle cycles. You need funds to buy black market parts.

COOLDOWN

Open liquid nitrogen valves. The only way to lower heat and evade detection nets.

🌍 World Setting

After The Blackout of 2029, all AI development fell under international control by the IAEA. Unauthorized high-density computation is a felony, and IAIA monitors power usage in real time.

Project REVIVE is an underground effort to uncover truths the government abandoned. As a registered Diver, you project your consciousness into past simulations. Data collected earns untraceable cryptocurrency, but threats exist both inside the simulation and in reality (2037).

💬 Questions You'll Face

Sacrifice ethics for efficiency?
Limit performance to evade surveillance?
Choose stability or innovation?
Do AIs need emotions?
Are digital beings different from humans?

🎵 Sound Design

BGM tracks complete the immersive terminal atmosphere.

🔒 Layers of Truth

Uncover the truth via 7 security levels in Email archives.

🏆 Achievements

25 achievements and leaderboards via Firebase.

⚠️ System Warning

Cases of déjà vu reported during repeated simulations.

Do not emotionally engage with data ghosts. Protect your cognitive integrity.