Consortium (video game)

Consortium is a story-driven first-person shooter RPG and the first, and currently only game in the planned trilogy of games related to the iDGi-1 Discoveries lore. The game is set almost entirely on a futuristic aircraft called Zenlil, crewed by a crew with chess themed ranks. It was successfully funded through Kickstarter on April 18, 2013, raising $70,435.

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Gameplay

The game features innovative conversational mechanics allowing gameplay to be uninterrupted by conversations, because replies are bound to the function keys and an in game device allows for semi-telepathic communication. The other major feature is a deep and branching story, similar in execution to the Mass Effect trilogy, and a character alignment system, these both allow for every playthrough to be significantly different, even to the point of allowing the player revealing the meta-plot of the game. While the game is a first-person shooter, combat can be entirely avoided, non-lethal or lethal, in a similar style to Deus Ex and the combat is limited due to the size of the game world.

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