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PRIME PROTOCOL

Prime Protocol is a high-stakes extraction platformer built around commitment, consequence, and choice.

There are no safety nets.
There are no permanent upgrades.
There is no progress without extraction.

Every run is a negotiation between greed and survival.

CORE LOOP

• Enter a procedural run

• Discover and carry physical Artifacts

• Push deeper to increase potential value

• Choose when to extract

• Die — and lose everything you didn’t secure

Extraction is voluntary.
Death is final.
Only extracted assets persist.

ARTIFACTS ARE NOT POWER-UPS

Artifacts are real objects, not abstract bonuses.

• Carried physically during a run

• Droppable, swappable, and losable

• Lost permanently on death

• Banked only through successful extraction

Artifacts change how the game feels — not raw stats.
No power creep. No scaling safety. No forgiveness.

INSTABILITY SYSTEM

Carrying more than you can control destabilizes the environment.

Instability alters:

• Platform behavior

• Hazard timing

• Visual and spatial clarity

• Environmental reliability

The exit remains stable.
Everything else reacts to your choices.

WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT

Prime Protocol does not optimize for comfort.

It is designed to:

• Respect player intelligence

• Reward restraint over grinding

• Make loss meaningful

• Make success earned, not accumulated

There is no meta progression that protects you from mistakes.
The system remembers nothing unless you make it remember.

MORE THAN A GAME

Prime Protocol is the first public deployment of a larger framework — also called Prime Protocol — designed to explore trust, persistence, and voluntary commitment across systems.

The Steam build is the entry point.
The protocol itself lives beyond the game.

👉 View the full protocol, design philosophy, and live systems on our official website.

EARLY ACCESS / SUPPORTER NOTE

Prime Protocol is actively evolving.

If you want to:

• Support development

• Participate early

• Observe the protocol as it grows

You can find all official surfaces and updates on the site.