Drawing inspiration from Zero Escape and Danganronpa, futuristic adventure game Minotaur traps nine people in an apartment complex and tasks them with trying to escape it. Preferably alive.
Minotaur offers five possible routes you can play through the game, each offering their own take on the characters you meet and your interactions with them. Through your dialogue choices, the puzzles you solve, and the path you take through your home-turned-lethal maze, you’ll reach an array of different endings. Hopefully you’ll eventually figure out what you need to know to get most of these poor folks out of there safely.
The Early Access release of Minotaur starts you off with Nod’s route. Nod has a few skeletons in their closet that will likely come up throughout your explorations, but with a little help from a sharp-tongued AI pal, Ollie, maybe you can overcome them and make it out. So long as you can figure out the game’s puzzles and fight an ancient robot, you should be all set. Are AIs good at fighting ancient robots? Well, it is ancient, so hopefully it’s all rusty and useless instead of possessed of incredible power. You never know how this ancient stuff will work.
The remaining four routes will be added to the game for free over the course of its development. Which gives you plenty of time to help Nod get to the varied endings (which the developers describe as: wicked, sad, very sad, brutal and shocking). So maybe don’t get your hopes up for escaping this place after all.
Minotaur is available now on Steam Early Access.
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