"CONSORTIUM" VR & remastered v1.0 is out now for PC

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Press release:
BC, Canada –May 21, 2024.
The British Columbia-based (Canada) indie games developer Interdimensional Games Inc., today announced with great delight and thrill that the full version (v1.0) of “CONSORTIUM VR” and “CONSORTIUM Remastered“, is now available for PC via Steam and the Meta Quest store.

“CONSORTIUM” is an enthralling VR game that has been in development for 17 years. Players take on the role of Bishop Six, investigating a murder, uncovering conspiracies, and navigating relationships through an interactive narrative with branching dialogue and voice interaction in a richly detailed game world.

Navigate a nuanced murder mystery in a deeply engaging 6-10 hour campaign where you can choose diplomacy or aggression, to shape public perception. Immerse yourself in a bright future with hidden shadows, accessing an Information Console with extensive lore, and managing weapons and gear.

Explore various gameplay scenarios in the Virtual Trainer, create your own levels, and enjoy a remastered version with improved graphics, a new ending, redesigned UI, enhanced minigames, and additional languages.

Features:

Play as Consortium Bishop Six, a global peacekeeper in the year 2042.

Utilize your voice to interact with a diverse cast of over twenty characters.

Engage in a murder mystery storyline set on a futuristic plane.

Every choice you make influences the outcome of the game.

Experience a complete Unreal Engine remaster of the original CONSORTIUM (2014).

Investigate a mysterious murder, uncover conspiracies, and navigate interpersonal relationships.

Make decisions that impact the trajectory of the narrative.

Explore the Consortium Command vessel C-3800-D ZENLIL freely.

Choose between diplomatic or violent approaches, with the option to engage in combat using assault weapons.

Immerse yourself in an alternate, bright future with solved humanity’s problems.

Access an Information Console containing over a hundred articles on history, backstory, and world events.

Control a variety of weapons, protective gear, medical equipment, and more.

Play different scenarios within the Virtual Trainer (VT) and create your levels using the VT level editor.

About Interdimensional Games Inc.
Founded in September 2006. Headquartered physically in the Lower Mainland, BC, Canada area. iDGi is a boutique R&D video game developer specializing in first-person interactive narrative simulations with a moral compass.

Since their inception, they’ve been cooking up their very own character-driven interactive narrative solution. Their first VR experience is in development, making use of the third generation of this solution, which they call the iDGi-1 Interactive Storytelling System (or simply “ISS” internally).

Their solution allows for a practically infinite variety of highly authored and always varied character-driven stories that are partially derived and advanced from the choices, actions, and even inactions of players. And it is possible to do it all with only a handful of team members!

Both of their “flat-screen” Consortium games, their interactive novel Whispers From The Rift, and their upcoming VR experience all represent them making use of their own evolving solutions. To be clear, these are all works made firmly within the limits of their complete independence and the incompatibility of our processes and goals with more conventional corporate production systems. This is one of the reasons they’ve had to rely on crowdfunding as much as they have to exist.

Their commitment to the continual creation and maintenance of an intricate and very deep lore for their IP revolves around nothing less than their desire to help make the world just a little bit brighter.

The world on the other side of iDGi-1 is an attainable, inspirational near-future world. It is one where they have solved a great many things – they have millions thriving in orbital, Lunar, and even Martian colonies. There is even a colony ship on its way to Europa. Humans on Earth have begun to learn how to live in harmony with nature again, rather than allowing greed to ruin the basis of our existence on this planet.

They want nothing less than to encourage optimism in younger generations and to demonstrate what might be possible if and when humanity collectively decides to get its act together and learns how to start living sustainably with nature.