AFTERLIGHT. A playable portfolio mystery.

TAKE BACK
THE SIGNAL.

One soldier. Seven encrypted nodes.
An engineer’s story to uncover.

Run. Double-jump. Deploy your drone or crawler. Take on the machines with an anti-drone gun, then hack Raghunath’s story out of the city.

Boots on the ground. Backup in the sky.
Original world. Fictional combat. Real engineering.

Follow the fragments.

Each node reveals a chapter. The last one connects everything.

0 of 7 decrypted
RECOVERED ARCHIVE
FIELD MANUAL

You run. We back you up.

You are the human operative. Reach the highlighted node and press E to hack a chapter of Raghunath’s story. Seven nodes reveal the full portfolio.

Run / double-jump
A / D or left / right to run. Space, W or up to jump. Release and tap again for a double jump. S / down crouches. Leap over crates and onto catwalks.
Anti-drone gun
Hold F for smart targeting, or aim and hold the mouse button. The soldier carries and fires the ARC gun.
Deploy backup
1 deploys KITE, an autonomous drone that follows you and engages hostile drones. 2 deploys ROOK, a ground crawler that provides covering fire and reduces incoming damage.
Equip / recall
3 recalls your companion and equips the faster-firing gun loadout. V cycles through drone, crawler and gun. Your soldier stays under your control throughout.
Combat roll
Shift. A ground roll or air dodge with brief damage immunity.
EMP pulse
Q. Stuns nearby robots, damages them and clears hostile projectiles.
Hack / pause
E hacks the next amber node. Escape / P pauses. Recovered chapters stay readable in your case file.

Touch controls have dedicated jump, fire, deploy and roll buttons. Story assist makes combat gentler. Existing saved fragments carry over to the soldier version.