Degradation: Kyomu's Fury - 劣化：キョムの怒り

WARNING: this game may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

Summary:

Degradation: Kyomu's Fury - 劣化：キョムの怒り is a 3D bullet-hell/FPS game in which you explore a strange, seemingly abandoned island while discovering its hidden, vast virtual network. Fight viruses, survive insane waves of rays and bullets, and find out more about the inhabitants of the Network.

Some overall primary features:

• Up to thirteen chapters and three possible endings.
  
• A variety of locations, alternating between short exploration and boss battles.
  
• 6 difficulty modes, including a practice mode, and a "MEGA" mode with unique enemy attack patterns, best suited for a second playthrough.
  
• A light story about AI, viruses, and making new virtual friends!

Gameplay considerations:

• The game can be played with a controller, but a keyboard and mouse setup is recommended.
  
• DLSS is available.
  
• Realtime ray/path tracing is necessary for some of the effects used in the game. Thus, a GPU capable of handling this type of rendering is required.

Bonus content:

For achievements and unlocklable bonus content, including the HD version with achievements of "World Annihilation Operations: Space Manipulation"; a short, never released platform game (remastered) I made in a game design class; and a music player letting you listen to the whole game's soundtrack: install the Steam version of this game!

Academic context:

This game (as well as the first bonus game) is done in the context of a PhD research on the integration of logical contradictions in video game fiction. It is expected that more games emerge from this research. Following the publication of these works, the operations developed through the creation process should lead to the development of one much larger adventure game in the coming years.

This game is entirely free. If you would like to support the developer, please consider donating.

Requirements:

MINIMUM

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS: Windows 10/11
  
• Processor: 3.0 GHz Intel Core i5 processor
  
• Memory: 6 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: DX12 Graphics with ray tracing capabilities (RTX, RX...)
  
• DirectX: Version 12
  
• Storage: 5.3 GB available space
  
• Additional Notes: DLSS available. Ray tracing cannot be fully deactivated.

RECOMMENDED

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS: Windows 10/11
  
• Processor: i7/i9 processor
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: Nvidia RTX-series card
  
• DirectX: Version 12
  
• Storage: 5.3 GB available space
  
• Additional Notes: DLSS available. Ray tracing cannot be fully deactivated.