Last Eight is a text-based survival game about getting seven crew members and yourself home alive. You are the acting captain of a small escape pod, appointed in the final seconds before your ship was destroyed. Ahead of you is a voyage of unknown length through deep space, on a vessel built for emergencies, not journeys. Behind you, whatever destroyed the Meridian, and the question of whether it followed you aboard.
You manage the basics — food, oxygen, fuel, morale — while assigning crew to tasks, making resource tradeoffs under pressure, and keeping systems running that were never designed for this kind of distance. Every decision compounds. Running the engines at full throttle gets you there faster, but burns fuel you may need later. Minimal rations stretch supplies but grind down the people depending on you. The ship's systems degrade quietly until they don't.
The crew is at the heart of the story. Eight people in a small space for a long time, each carrying their own history and their own read on the situation. As you bond with your crew over time, you'll learn more about who they are. They may not be who you thought they were. The voyage has a destination, a mystery, and an enemy, none of which are fully visible at the start. What you find out, and when, and what you do with it, shapes the kind of story you end up telling. Last Eight takes about two hours to play and ends differently depending on the choices you made along the way.
⚠ Some games may affect photosensitive individuals. Player discretion advised.
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