NEXUS is a 2.5D sidescroller exploring how digital folklore spreads, and distorts through online environments. Set inside a stylised digital world, you play as an internet user guided by an unseen algorithm. Inhabitants of the city appear agitated, their fear growing as fragmented warnings emerge.As you navigate the city, fear escalates. Shadows stir, signs display fragmented truths and warnings, and NPCs react with panic. Reaching a misinformation hub, the player becomes part of the system—triggering broadcasts, manipulating signs, and unknowingly fuelling chaos. Their actions disrupt order, forcing NPCs to flee and environments to collapse into glitch and decay.NEXUS culminates in a corrupted, broken world where control slips away, ending with the player’s final step into a fractured digital unknown.This game draws from research into the technological and psychological affordances of digital folklore—examining how stories mutate, gain power, and sow misinformation in online spaces. Through minimalist gameplay and atmospheric design, NEXUS visualises the viral mechanics of online narratives: their reach, their consequence, and their inevitability.
