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| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 4604230 |
| Live current players | 0 |
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| Price | No longer available on Steam Store |
| Free to play | No current Steam offer |
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| Release date | Q4 2026 |
| Developer | BoldHat® |
| Publisher | BoldHat® |
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| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
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Short description
ConOps21: Subversion Protocol: Book One — Black Signal. An interactive drama in Neo-London. You are Cipher Reeve. The Dominion tried to erase you. The protocol failed. A buried civilization remembers itself through one fractured mind. Memory is the terrain. Truth is contraband.
About this game
THE WORLD WAS NOT SAVED. A FOUNDATION WAS LAID. Neo-London does not remember the world it lost — because it was built not to. After the Purge, history wasn't destroyed. It was removed, rewritten, and replaced by a regime that understood a simple, terrible truth: a population that cannot remember what was taken from it cannot grieve, cannot resist, and cannot rebuild. That regime is the Dominion. It controls the feeds, the frequencies, and the silence between them. Beneath its clean compliance districts and its drone-lattice sky, something older is still breathing in the dark. You are going to find it. YOU ARE A FAILED ERASURE Cipher Reeve was supposed to forget. The Dominion's harmonic suppression takes everyone — it took your city, your history, your name for what the world used to be. It did not fully take you. That partial failure left you resistant to the one process the regime depends on, and made you something its systems have no protocol for: the first viable Bridge in generations. You are not a chosen one. You are not a super-soldier. You are a fracture point — hypervigilant, breakable, destabilized by truth rather than empowered by it. Your strength is not that you can win a fight. It's that you can survive contact with what everyone else was made to forget. THE SIGNAL IS NOT A WEAPON. IT IS A WOUND. They call it the Black Signal, and they're afraid of it for the wrong reasons. It isn't a hack. It isn't a rogue intelligence. It is the scarred, distributed remnant of a civilization the Dominion murdered — a wounded meta-consciousness assembled from the memory-remains of everyone who was erased. It cannot speak. It cannot act. It can only reach, pulse, and resonate through the cracks in a managed world. It has been waiting for someone who could survive hearing it. After decades, that's you. MEMORY IS THE TERRAIN You do not fight your way through Neo-London. You read it. The dead carry residue. Objects hold the emotional imprint of what happened around them. Whole districts remember crimes the Dominion sealed. You move through the world by following the trail of what it was forbidden to say — and every act of remembering has a cost, paid in your own…
Supported languages
English * * languages with full audio support