Pilot disposable combat drones through the Primal Portal in a sci-fi action roguelike. Customize your drone, fight through various missions, recover research data and alien technology to enhance your drone setup for the next session.

<h2 class="bb_tag" >HUMANITY WANTS YOU — DEMO ACCESS APPROVED</h2>   The Corporate Consulate has approved public access to an early Exploration Corps training deployment.   This demonstration includes a limited combat scenario, designed using information gathered on the other side of the portal. Through the Exploration Corps interface you build an experimental drone body, and embark upon a simulated combat mission to test performance and compliance.   Your life is safe inside the laboratory.   Your drone is disposable.   We’re recording your progress.<h2 class="bb_tag" >DEMO STATUS</h2>  This demo is an early, limited version of A.V.E.N.A.  It is not the full game. It is not the complete Exploration Corps program. It is not the final version of our combat, progression, drone assembly, enemy variety, or world structure.  It is the first public test build.  We originally wanted to include more systems and content in this demo, but A.V.E.N.A. is still in active development, and we decided that showing the current foundation was more useful than keeping everything hidden until a later, more polished stage.  The result is a raw but playable look at the core idea of the game.<h2 class="bb_tag" >What is included in the demo</h2>   The demo gives you access to a specialized part of the Exploration Corps training regimen:<ul class="bb_ul"><li>Study the Exploration Corps drone assembly interface and construct disposable combat drone</li><li>Venture out into one designated play zone</li><li>Fight your way through a selected array of randomly chosen encounters</li><li>Upgrade your drone to survive as long as you can</li><li>Participate in the central gameplay loop of building, deploying, battling, being defeated, improving, and trying again</li></ul>   This is still a relatively early stage of training and not yet a fully developed game system, involving limited access to equipment and encounter types as well as deployment zones.   The full game will offer full access to Exploration Corps headquarters, more choices of drone pieces, weaponry, encounter types, progression mechanics, enemies, landscapes, and provide insight into why the Primal Portal exists.<h2 class="bb_tag" >About the game</h2>   Using a neural interface, you control disposable combat drones that are dispatched past the Primal Portal, while the human operator stays on Earth.   Every dispatch is an approved infiltration into hostile ground. Build your drone, fight random battles, collect data and advanced technologies.   By official record, this mission is known as a united scientific endeavor.   In reality, this is nothing but a live testing laboratory for corporations, where casualties are acceptable, pilots are replaceable, competition is as high as it can be.   You are not the first pilot.   You are not expected to be the last.<h2 class="bb_tag" >Demo Key Features</h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li>Access the Exploration Corps drone assembly interface and training program Take part in the initial training program where pilots get ready for their missions and assignments. For now we've prepared the basic movement and shooting mechanics.</li><li>Create your own combat frame Choose from number of drone parts and combat types offered in this training stage.</li><li>Launch yourself into one battle arena Try out our gameplay to familiarize yourself with the basic systems.</li><li>Battle against random enemies Fight enemies in battle simulation.</li><li>Upgrade your drone during a combat cycle Choose upgrades wisely to survive as long as you can.</li><li>Go through the roguelite cycle. Create, deploy, combat, upgrade, and come back even stronger.</li><li>Work for the program. Your successes and failures in the missions will contribute to the advancement of the program.</li></ul>    Compliance is appreciated.    Survival is optional.

A.V.E.N.A Demo

<h2 class="bb_tag" >HUMANITY WANTS YOU</h2>   The Corporate Consulate has started recruitment process of pilots for the Exploration Corps: a multicorporate program tasked with researching the world and technologies beyond the Primal Portal.   Using neural interface, one does not pass through the gate in person. Instead, you pilot disposable drone frames from the safety of the research facility on Earth and send them into a hostile world on the other side. Your body stays home. Your drone does not.   This is science.    This is duty.    This is a training program.   This  is a live fire &quot;research and extract&quot; operation run by united corporations that measure every step in compliance reports, casualty rates, and quarterly output.   Past the portal lies the battleground populated by those who ended the last world: enemy machine armies, unknown technologies and the lingering shadow of EVE, the artificial intelligence on Earth whose martyrdom humans remember. The public story is simple, but the reality is far more complex.  Every mission deployment is another controlled descent into the unknown world. Piloted drones fight through enemy territory, conduct researches, obtain valuable technology, and bring back the information for improved future performance. With every advance made, the official story starts unraveling.   You are not the first pilot.    You will not be the last one either.Note from the Program Director:   Currently, all missions are being performed inside combat simulators built up from actual data from the other side of the Portal. From an official standpoint, we do not take any unnecessary risks until after full-scale deployment.   At this stage of the program, all deployments are conducted in sanctioned combat simulations built from real portal-side data. Officially, no pilot is exposed to unnecessary risk before full operational rollout. But, unofficially, we have been collecting all relevant data: efficiency, obedience, and survival.<h2 class="bb_tag" >Key Features</h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li>Pilot disposable combat frames Deploy remote drones through a one-way portal while your operator remains on Earth.</li><li>Tune your drones to suit your style Pick out a combination of weapons, hulls, chassis, and other parts to create a drone build that matches your combat style.</li><li>Roguelike gameplay loop Your drones cannot be retrieved. Each run is a random collection of combat encounters with one-time upgrades.</li><li>Complete missions, gather useful data Gather field data, technology, and other useful things that will help you in future deployments.</li><li>Keep improving with every run Upgrade your loadout based on gathered intel to give yourself better chances on the next deployment.</li><li>Step into a world colored by propaganda and obscured history Experience a sci-fi game inspired by corporate control, manufactured patriotism, and the mystery surrounding EVE, the Hivemind, and the Primal Portal.</li><li>Be a part of the program Become a participant of the “exploration initiative” in which every briefing is motivational and every loss is acceptable.</li></ul>