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Vision flickers… blink? maybe. The void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. You see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you? Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? If we can ever happen again? What are… we? Divide and conquer. Solve for sentience.

In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols' command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. But be careful! Moving and revealing cards have immediate action. You have to think like a computer, and think ahead, or you'll end up playing right into your opponent's hands.

First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game. Control your opponent's Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality. This second pack offers a whole new array of Protocols for you and your fellow AI to go head to head against.

Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Henry R. ★★★★★

I went in expecting another puzzle game and instead spent twenty minutes just staring at the void. The way the nothingness stretches out in every direction until it finally registers as absence rather than emptiness is genuinely unnerving. My only complaint is that I finished it in one sitting.

Sofia ★★★★★

I've never had a game make me sit with silence like this. The moment the void stretches out in every direction and time stops meaning anything, I just stared at the screen. It's unsettling in the best way.

Victoria ★★★★★

It's not often a "product" makes you sit still for an hour just thinking about the word "depth" and how it applies to time. The way it frames the void under, above, and behind really rewires how you read the next page. Took me three sittings to get through it, but I've been mulling it over for days