Faraday Protocol

Released Aug 2021

Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence. Use the Bia-Tool, an ancient pistol-like relic of an alien civilization, to solve puzzles by bending energy and manipulating enigmatic machinery.

85% positive · 118 reviews

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Done

All announced content has been released

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Evaluation

Faraday Protocol is a self-contained first-person puzzle game that launched on August 12, 2021. The developer, Red Koi Box, described the launch as the end of "a years-long journey" to bring the game to players, framing it as a complete product from day one. Following launch, the team shipped a Quality-of-Life update on November 9, 2021 that redesigned platforming segments and improved puzzle layouts, along with several smaller patches addressing bugs and adding Linux support. The final update was a keybind improvement patch on July 28, 2022. There is no DLC listed, no roadmap or announced future content, and no developer posts after July 28, 2022. The store description presents the game as a complete, standalone experience with no mention of ongoing content or expansions. The game launched and was supported as a finished product, with post-launch updates focused entirely on polish and quality-of-life improvements rather than new content.

Evidence

Launch announcement describes the release as the end of a 'years-long journey' to bring the game to players, framing it as a complete, finished product.

news post · Aug 13, 2021 source development ending

high

First major post-launch update redesigned platforming segments and improved puzzle layouts — a quality-of-life improvement, not new content.

news post · Nov 9, 2021 source content shipped

medium

Media

Details

Developer

Red Koi Box

Publisher

Deck13

Achievements

Platform

Windows, Linux

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Verified

Players

Single-player

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About this game

Faraday Protocol is a first-person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence, challenging your critical thinking. You are Raug Zeekon: interstellar archeologist from planet Cunor. You have been sent by your company to investigate the source of a mysterious signal coming from an unexplored star.

The Bia Tool, an ancient relic of an alien civilization, is the first mystery you uncover when arriving in OPIS. Unsure of its true purpose you start wielding it to solve the challenges on your path. With its ability to absorb energy and the option to redistribute it to different machinery, you start digging deeper and deeper into the temples, encountering even harder puzzles that will test your savvy and abilities in problem solving. Are you smart enough to solve every challenge thrown at you?

You encounter a mysterious robotic voice. Her name is IRIS, an A.I. created to guard the ancient structures of OPIS. The complex seems to have been abandoned for aeons, but what was its purpose? Rooms filled with puzzles, getting more and more sophisticated and challenging as you progress through them. Who built them? Why would someone build a training facility like this on an otherwise abandoned planet?