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Last updated 10 Oct 2026
Uncover Sabotage, Conspiracy and Counter-Revolution in this cyberpunk detective mystery. Using a mind-probing interface, you explore and act within memories, collect facts, meet agents of change and enormous corporations. Build your case against a person torn between idealism and turmoil.
Explore a cyberpunk world as you uncover truths within minds and build your case against an idealist torn between revolution and reality. Use a mind-probing interface to interact with memories, agents, and corporations in "a permanent echo."
About this game
The year is 2062 - a heinous act of terrorism has sabotaged Europe's leading geoengineering project. A presumed perpetrator is in custody - a high ranking female member of the Akonia Corporation.
You are the lead Investigator. As a certified Mind Probing Operator, your task is to find out what really happened, who the co-conspirators are, and why anyone would put all of northern Europe into crisis.
Mind Probing
Use state of the art technology to recover the memory of the accused, explore her past and motive, and find leads to other, presumably high ranking actors of change in a web of corporate and political intrigue. Extract Facts and explore her Mind Palace to understand and find truth.
a permanent echo is a game of investigation and deduction. About piecing together how we will remember - and judge - the decisions that shape our future.
A world in peril
Near future Europe is transformed. Facing climate disaster while restructuring society to withstand the enormous pressures that act upon our changing planet.
The First Generation reformed the political and economic system during the Great Reforms of the 2030s. The states and their people align to push back against ever more frequent environmental hazards. Enormous geoengineering projects are started to meet these challenges head on.
It is only after one of the projects - tectonic station one - fails spectacularly, that the faultlines of old feuds and deepened ideological differences open up again.
Features and Gameplay
Against this backdrop, you are tasked with probing the memories of the accused. Your task is to find evidence of a larger conspiracy using the newly introduced practice of Abyssal Mind Probing - a medical procedure in which you reconstruct memories, thoughts and motivations directly from the mind of the subject.
It is on you to identify co-conspirators and other agents of change that could put Europe's hope of reversing its hazardous environmental conditions - and its future as a free and prospering society - in jeopardy.
As the Investigator, you will:
explore the memories and thoughts of the accused using Mind Probing.
uncover and interact with 3D reconstructions of key points in their life in first- and third-person views.
collect information as fact-cards and relate them to the characters and situations you encounter.
use the facts at key locations to dive ever deeper into even more memories.
learn more about near future Europe and its transformation during the Great Reforms and dive deep into world of Neo Baltica and the factions and institutions that shape our planet's future.
Memory is Context, Context is Memory
While exploring the memories and thoughts of the suspect, you piece together not just their motivation to shape society, but also a life in service of an ideal. Your investigation uncovers and reveals facts and hopes - but your decisions also shape and change a public memory.
What will be remembered as our future history?
How much can you trust another's memories? And how much can you shape them to serve your purpose, and the purpose of the institutions that employ you?
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System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: windows 11
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
End of Playtest
It has been a wonderful experience to run this Playtest throughout August, a month that was not just busy with game design, but also saw our Trailer release alongside the game's intro, as well as a brief showing at Gamescom this year!those that have signed up for the Playtest until today will be able to play the current version for now, and will still be able to invite friends.Now it's off to implement some more of the game and to fix all the issues you have kindly reported and documented.Thanks!Read full article on Community Announcements (Three More Years)AnnouncementsOfficial
Playtest live!
It's finally time to to step out into the world and show a small glimpse of what we have been working on these past months! And what better time than Steam's Cyberpunk festival to do that!Signups for Playtest now open!Since this is the first time we are doing a Playtest on Steam, like, EVER, we're currently admitting people after they sign up. Depending on how things go, we might be opening up the Playtest towards the weekend.This Playtest is not the first time people have tried the game however. We've had some good feedback on our Discord Server.What's in here?30-45 min. Playtime (some players have reported taking an hour or more, it depends on your reading speed and joy, really.Core Gameplay systems - you'll get a good sense of the gameplay systems that will make up the exploration and your detective tools when playing the game.Setting the stage - you'll be playing the beginning of the story and will get to understand what's at stake.probably a couple of bugs we were not aware of yet. 👾What's not in here?NO OPTIONS MENU yet! So this will run on 1920x1080 for now.Limited Sound Design and limited Music (courtesy of Epidemic Sound, love those folks).No Gamepad support yet! It'll be in the Demo and the full version, but we're focusing on Mouse for now.Please let us know what you make of this Playtest on the Forums! We've vacuumed up, dusted the cupboards and prepared some biscuits...Your Feedback has impact!Starting with this year's AMAZE Festival in May, we have been showing a basic game loop to people of the navigation and exploration of a permanent echo - and we did gather a whole lot of feedback that led to some significant re-designs on the interface.Here's an example of the old Factboard, for example:This was not the first version, of course, but it turns out that the spaghetti-ness of connecting the different facts looked great on video but was a bit fiddly to use in game. Enter the new version of the Factboard:it's a different color! It's also much easier to n...Read full article on Community Announcements (Three More Years)
