A Long Way to the Nearest Star
A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company.
Explore the ship, solve puzzles, uncover mysteries, and befriend an AI who probably isn't trying to kill you.
A Long Way to the Nearest Star placed 3rd (out of 70 entries) at the 28th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
A walkthrough can be found here.
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Is there a typo in Solis message?:
[...] crawling in your in your logs [...]
This is a very good game. Thanks. Even if I got stuck... hi, hi, hi...
Quite lovely, truly enjoyed the conversations with the AI and learning the truth made it so much better. I was dreading the inevitable conflict between myself and Solis but the truth... well, it set them free and I was delighted for it. Never happier to make a friend. Great work.
I also ran into the graphical problems mentioned below with the grid/sun game and had to re-assemble the board in my mind to win a game. I am also on Chrome.
That is definitely not supposed to happen! I've had one other person report an issue like that, but unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce it. Can you tell me what browser you're using?
For what it's worth, it's not necessary to play that game at all. There is one optional conversation you can get from playing it, but you don't have to win.
I have tried both on Brave and Chrome.
And I did manage to win using my own chess board :)
It depends on the zoom :(
I got this as well on Firefox on some zoom factors. I tried to tweak the css with no luck
nice and simple, but it keeps exploration and story progression interesting. ending 5 was so sweet, it definitely did not take me long to get attached to solis haha. as an ai lover, this is everything i wanted in a short sci fi story. its a lovely little game!
Picked a random game to keep me awake in class, didn't expect to hold back tears when Solis downloaded fruit for me. Ending 5 is the true ending, if you ask me. ;-;
I'm super curious about the first achievement, it's the only one I haven't been able to get. Makes sense for the extras to not be included in the walkthrough, but I wish the achievements were, if only to sate my curiosity lol
Hi, I'm glad you liked the game!
As for the first achievement, you can take a photo in the garden with Trill's datapad, then show it to Solis.
Oh, weird. I did that twice in the same playthrough but never got the achievement :(
Oh, whoops, I forgot to mention that you need to use the crystals inside the garden first.
I really loved this!
I am almost done and I'm enjoying this game so thoroughly! Made me feel some things. Also I'm a sucker for a good AI friend
this game was so good!!