Cosmonaut Studios

Eternal Threads

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Released: 19 May 2022
Developer: Cosmonaut Studios
Publisher: Secret Mode
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Perspective: First person
Age rating: PEGI 16 · ESRB M
Controller: Full controller support
Steam recommendations: 528
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S · PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch
Genres: Puzzle · Adventure · Indie
Also known as: Second Chance
Estimated owners: 50,000–100,000 (est.)

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Player rating: 63
Critic rating: 12
Ratings counted: 86.5%
Steam reviews: 10
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Quick answers

Crossplay System requirements 8 GB RAM Steam Deck Playable

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The story

You are Operator 43, who works for the newly created Second Chance project, whose mission is to restore the many mistakes of the past. As an operative tasked with fixing corruption in the timestream, you have been sent to the North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event. From the outset, you have free and complete reign to explore the seven day timeline before the fire. You can watch and alter the significant events from the entire week as many times as you like and in whatever order you wish. Some decisions will have only minor effects on the timeline, moving objects around the house or revealing deeper stories and secrets. Major changes however, rewrite the timeline by changing existing events, adding new events and even replacing other events entirely. You must traverse up and down this timeline, changing decisions at different moments throughout the week so that their effects interact and combine together to save all six housemates. However, it is not just the housemates who have choices. Each of them can be saved from the fire in multiple ways, with each outcome having a profound effect on their lives in the future. Will you just search for the quickest and easiest solution, or can you find the best possible outcome for everyone? Ultimately, everything is about choices and consequences.

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Key facts

Platforms

Game modes

Single player

Themes

Action
Survival

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Trailer

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Reviews and languages

86.5% of 890 Steam reviews are positive. Valve labels that “Very Positive”.

13 languages in the interface, 2 of them with full voice acting. English is supported, with full voice acting.

Publisher's content notice

Eternal Threads is a mature game and contains scenes and topics some players may find distressing. Specific story events marked with dedicated symbols contain non-gory depictions of death. In a small number of scenes, characters openly discuss traumatic childhood events including topics of abuse, loss, and psychological trauma. Eternal Threads also includes off-screen sexual activity between consenting partners and instances of bad language, tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs. If you are negatively affected by any of the in-game content, or wish to seek mental health resources, please visit: [url]https://safeinourworld.org/[/url]

Eternal Threads