SHELL GAME

You are a digitised consciousness, held in debt bondage and used as a deniable asset. The cost of immortality was your freedom. You are not protected by human rights. Parts of you are shaved off to make you a more effective asset.

Advances in technology have allowed for faster than light communications. This is where you make your money. 

Your consciousness is beamed across space into 3D printed bodies. You scrounge the ruins of disaster sites. An interstellar detritivore.

Each death brings you further into financial ruin. Each successful mission helps you claw your way out, bit by bit. 

You are not alone. You have a crew. You have enemies. The Whiskeys prowl the wreckage of a fallen colony, covering up the truth and eliminating witnesses.

SHELL GAME is a Marathon-inspired dungeon crawler. Print a body, infiltrate intersolar exclusion zones, kill, loot, die, repeat.

Designed as part of the 2026 Marathon Game Jam, hosted by snow.