Ending?

[rock]

Cool lil' game. After getting the clues and solving the puzzle, I am left wondering what all of it meant. Maybe I'm just not very perceptive. Was it time travel? A hallucination? Who is even the main character?

[Shade]

After you solve the photo puzzle you crawl through the vent to see the boots of an astronaut walking by. This mirrors the skinless creature popping out of the vent earlier in the game. My understanding is that something is warping time on the station and that skeleton thing is the PC in the future.

You seem to be trapped in the timeloop and the monster is just you in the future. Since it throws you back into the loop if you miss a clue im assuming its trying to get you to break the cycle somehow.

[its4fun]

That doesnt explain the monster breaking window near exit. Why would PC do that, why is he out there, and why did he blocked your path on one occasion. My guess is that the developers just thought that some scary thing will make game scarier and just put that thing there. Lorewise, it could be oxygen starving. Brain does some funky things in those cases, basically trying to tell you that you are in danger and need to get somewhere nicer. That could result in hallucinations that urge you to gtfo, loke monster or fire. But i dont know what to make of the puzzle and looping rooms

[Bullwark]

Originally posted by its4fun:

That doesnt explain the monster breaking window near exit. Why would PC do that, why is he out there,

Well in the end we got out, didn't we? The story ends for us, but imagination implies, that something's going to happen outside. If we are the "monster" in a timeloop and are going out in the end, there's a possibility that "we" were there. Maybe tried to warn us?
The monster looked burned to me in the first encounter so that would fit the ending.
Also it doesn't fit, because we got a full view of the distored beeing in the training room. Didn't look burned me..

But don't try to break your head over this. As I see this "game" it's more like a playable teaser of an early yet playable footage.
Much potential, interesting story but very unfinished with an intention to keep you excited (!) and riddled (!) about what may come and about all that what we've encountered means.

And it delivered obviously.

[rock]

Interesting theories. It may be that there is no clear answer, considering it's more of a technical demo/teaser.