Severance-like Interactive Fiction/RPG "Inhuman Resources"
launches April 16th!
Combining anti-capitalist satire and psychological horror, this interactive thriller offers a narrative adventure where every choice can change your story.
Montreal, April 10th, 2025 – Developer Finnegan Motors and collective-slash-publisher Indie Asylum are delivering something innovative with Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination. Your protagonist is hired by SMYRNACORP, an understaffed firm that supposedly specializes in cutting-edge human resource solutions. While everything seems perfectly normal at first glance, players will soon discover that upper management's true goals are far more morbid than running a recruitment service.
Inhuman Resources stands out thanks to its multiple branching story paths. Over the course of play, your decisions will affect the outcome of various events and, among other things, upgrade your playable employee's unique abilities. Plus, by acquiring secret items, you'll unlock even more potential choices to affect the story's outcomes. Each decision will, in turn, lead to countless other decisions in turn, allowing players to shape a journey that is uniquely their own.
By solving cryptic riddles, you'll uncover incriminating evidence to nip the company's ambitions in the bud. You'll need to, among other things, alter video footage, make difficult choices, secretly hack your colleagues' computers and crack secret codes in order to uncover the darker truth lurking at the heart of this megalomaniacal megacorporation. Can you escape the depths of SMYRNACORP with your sanity intact?
Key features:
- Experience a non-linear storyline with countless possibilities. Befriend demented coworkers, survive sadistic supervisors, and unearth the evils hidden within SMYRNACORP.
- Flesh out your employee profile by increasing your skills and finding hidden items, allowing you to discover secret paths.
- Do whatever it takes to survive your nine-to-five. Steal confidential data, distort video footage, hack a colleague's computer and crack open vaults to meet company expectations.
- Discover a collection of short stories written for the game's universe by an extensive cast of Canadian authors.
- Full English and French localization available.
About Finnegan Motors/Indie Asylum
Finnegan Motors is the brainchild of the Indie Asylum and book publisher Editions Alto. After
creating more than 20 games and publishing over 200 books respectively, both groups have more than two
decades of narrative successes under their belts. Finnegan Motors is the result of Indie Asylum's experience
in overcoming the challenges associated to story-driven game development, as well as the unexpected
meeting between literature and technology that Alto seeks to facilitate.
The Indie Asylum is a collaborative hub/incubator of 15+ indie video game studios that have come together to share knowledge and resources. Along with incubation, they also serve as a publisher in one of the top gaming hubs in the world - Montreal QC Canada.
