Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 2967100 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 1 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | Free to play |
| Free to play | Yes |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | — |
| Current price USD | Free |
| Release date | Jul 15, 2024 |
| Developer | Art Games Thesis |
| Publisher | Art Games Thesis |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | Not available |
| Review type | Positive |
| Positive review percent | 83% |
| Positive reviews | 10 |
| Negative reviews | 2 |
| Total reviews | 12 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | Not available |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/2967100/ |
Short description
terminal connection is an experimental art game about doomscrolling. You fly a plane.
About this game
terminal connection is a metaphor for doomscrolling. You fly a plane. Stay close to surfaces to keep your engine running as hyperreal landscapes flood your senses. You find yourself in a cozy airplane hanger, seated in a cockpit. As you attempt to start your flight, a glowing cave fades in around you. You go through the standard flight checks, testing your controls, and begin to glitch through overwhelming and disorienting spaces. Terms and conditions fly by you, the love you've never had is advertised – demanded – of you, your interests are weaponized in your workplace, and you're forced to see visceral vulnerability. Finally, space seems to collapse onto itself, threatening to overpower you, but you find yourself flying into a never-ending void. Will you end your terminal connection? terminal connection is an observation of the resting state of capitalist-hyperreality. Capitalist-hyperreality is a phenomenon brought about by the exponential growth of hyperreal influences within a capitalistic structure. Hyperreality is – the abstracted and self-referential understanding of reality that comes about as a result of human communication and, more relevantly, mass media. It identifies the distance we have created between our subjective realities and objective reality as a result of our construction of experienced reality based on the subjectivity of others rather than what actually might be real. If a rare flower were to be found in the modern day, a hyperreal construct of the flower would be created through language, videos, images, songs, artworks, and poems of said flower. The average person’s understanding of the flower would almost certainly be based on the hyperreal construct of the flower, and more hyperreal constructs would be created based on the existing hyperreal constructs. This perpetuating web of abstraction extends until the real flower itself is nearly forgotten. Only a minute few would have ever actually seen the real flower. terminal connection diagnoses the consequences of when hyperreal abstraction is driven by monetary incentives. This game is a metaphor for doomscrolling and expects to simulate the emotions brought forth by ever invasive socia…
Supported languages
English * * languages with full audio support