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Our game is an interactive sci-fi narrative with branching story paths and decisions matter. Your choices affect your personal relationships with other characters and ultimately determine their fate. This game is an intended prequel to a larger work. Support us if you would like us to continue.

"The Pinch" is an ambitious character-driven science fiction project about a team of physicists on a dangerous expedition to save their planet from being swallowed by an omnivorous virtual reality known as "the Gel." Whether it is a prison or a paradise, the Gel has swept through most of the galaxy, including Earth. Their only hope? An equally lethal biome on their homeworld Maridma called "the Pinch."

As the expedition unravels, the personal tensions and family conflicts deepen among the scientists. You play a young botanist from Earth navigating these complex interpersonal relationships, all the while chasing your real target - Paul Evorett.

The full game is 4 - 5 hours of content with five endings and features many branching narratives and questlines. There are two distinct paths in the game: the "good" route and the "lunatic" route.