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Cathexis

Preview demo available

Cathexis

A first-person action game about breaking out

Smash your prison in this first-person PC action game set inside an endless living machine built by long-forgotten gods. The preview demo is on Steam now.

Cathexis is built to be taken apart. Panels, constructs, and the deck of things that can spawn are all data, not code, so the game can keep growing after it ships.

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Cathexis will be open source

Cathexis stays on Steam, gets an itch.io listing alongside it, and the source goes public. The repo opens at demo launch or after, once the third-party asset audit is done.

The reason is permanence. Storefronts close and accounts get orphaned. A game whose source is public and whose engine is archived next to it is still runnable in thirty years. That is what "games you can play forever" has to mean if it means anything.

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