Nous

About this game

Nous is a story-rich, first person adventure game with a strong focus on character development, dialogues and choices...And more choices...And different outcomes for different choices. • Unique multi-layered story that has flavors of suspense, psychological horror, crime drama and cyber-punk tones. • Interesting twists of character presentation. Feel free to chose whom your want to believe, which would affect the ending of the story. • Several unique locations to discover that includes medieval life simulations, space stations, post-apocalyptic wastelands and abandoned institutions. • Puzzle solving and dialogue interaction. • Multiple endings based on how you interpret the whole story and choose to believe "any" characters' interpretation of the narrative. • Tense and mysterious soundtrack. • Professional voice acting. Main Characters : • Alex... (Protagonist, he is called «the lost student» by Noesis but he isn’t aware of this label) • Jason...(He thinks he is a urban-explorer, but according to Noesis he is one of the «other students») • Roy...(He thinks he is a urban-explorer, but according to Noesis he is one of the «other students») • Harvey...(He thinks he is a war veteran fighting in this «final war» that broke out but according to Noesis he is one of the other students) • Raul...(un-paralell other side of Harvey.) • Susan...(The voice of the resistance army, victim of mind-control experiment, an astronaut, an ex-secret service agent without memory, an angelic inspirational entity for a medieval painter) • Noesis...(The grand master who claimed to «do» all of these with just 1s and 0s, the compulsive binary ego submitter) What's is NOESIS? Noesis : A network of raw data files of gigantic code-base....Usually represented either in pitch black or pure-whiteness with the voice of Noesis...Noesis itself could be a "world," in a way. Perhaps the player meets another student who became "lost" in Noesis. This could provide an interface with the present crisis, and raise questions about what comes after the training, and if there even really is anything beyond the simulation anymore, further toying with the tension between sanity and madness and reflecting it back on the player. If the cataclysm that devastated humanity was technological, it means that Noesis itself was born of the process that generated the rash of mental illness in the 22nd century, which spurs further philosophical questions about how consciousness can never truly see itself from outside..... designed by Noesis to suit your own pathologies, so when you wind up in the DataDump, they're there with you. In the absence of Noesis' control, they wander aimlessly. Datadump : A total wasteland of our today’s world, in a gut-wrenching post-apocalyptic setting...Perhaps the final world war has totally destroyed the current form our civilization..The world is in chaos and you try to find your way though deserted towns...Nous, the mastermind A.I software claims to have this world and he consider this «real» world as his storage space where he dumps his data...The kind of data he collects from his students... By logging into Noesis, players will travel to different scenarios of both past and future of mankind, where they will face the challenges of; *convincing different personality types that they have emotional problems and they need therapy. *Apply therapy by talking to them with the right “choice of linguistic and conversational abilities” *Along with the help of Noesis’s “stimuli-making” sub-platform, players will try to produce and prescribe necessary "healing agents" for patients... *Explore different virtual reality scenes generated by Noesis, to learn more about human behavioral, emotional and cognitive patterns and apply these information to help…Yourself...to become a better Psychiatrist for the future of...…Mankind Since P.E.T.A was formed out of necessity after the catastrophic events of 22nd century era, where the remains of our planet is still populated by uncanny life forms, however 80% of human beings are mentally ill. Along with this psychological journey, you will also unravel the mystery of what happened to earth and to human race, how they have reached such a level of insanity and what are the origins of these life forms, whether it is “us” or “them” who are responsible for the need of such an special academy of "P.E.T.A" The reality is that you have to «enter» Noesis, if you want to graduate/progress...Only then you’ll realize that «entering» the program would mean «bowing» down to the ego of Noesis... What is P.E.T.A ? P.E.T.A is the name of the «mini-game» series that the player will partake in during NOUS chronicles...this whole Peta mini-game is a like personality test....It is much more than a mini-game actually and the choices the player makes in this mini-game will have direct consequences in the final game... Main Character Alex finds these «P.E.T.A Terminals» scattered around the asylum after he starts exploring... These P.E.T.A terminals provide in-game dialogue-choice based games and depending on the choices player would make, Noesis will label & categorize the player choices accordingly... P.E.T.A : Psychiatric Experimentations Training Academy : This is how Noesis describes the P.E.T.A training programme: Psychiatry Students’ training takes place in a special educational virtual reality system, called NOESIS... Noesis is a self-aware augmented reality scenario generator, specifically designed to help students to diagnose and cure psychological disorders of various “life forms”. Students have to pass all tests of Noesis before they can be graduated from the P.E.T.A academy. P.E.T.A : Time-travel hub terminals : Depending on the answers the «trainee» gives during P.E.T.A trainings the player then puts on the virtual reality head-set to travel to different scenarios designed the Noesis software... Therefore, we’ll see Alex taking a sneak-peak to the different locations that we are going to see in th…