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2022 · Cosmonaut Studios · Puzzle · Adventure

Eternal Threads

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Released
19 May 2022
Platforms
Xbox Series X/SPlayStation 4WindowsPlayStation 5Xbox OneNintendo Switch
Genres
PuzzleAdventureIndie
Developers
Cosmonaut Studios
Publishers
Secret Mode
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
First person
Themes
ActionSurvival
Engine
Unreal Engine 4
Age ratings
ACB MCLASS_IND 12GRAC 15+USK 12ESRB MPEGI 16
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, English (UK), French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Features
Family SharingFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam achievements
Time to beat
7hmain story10hcompletionist
›Story

You are Operator 43, who works for the newly created Second Chance project, whose mission is to restore the many mistakes of the past. As an operative tasked with fixing corruption in the timestream, you have been sent to the North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event.

From the outset, you have free and complete reign to explore the seven day timeline before the fire. You can watch and alter the significant events from the entire week as many times as you like and in whatever order you wish. Some decisions will have only minor effects on the timeline, moving objects around the house or revealing deeper stories and secrets. Major changes however, rewrite the timeline by changing existing events, adding new events and even replacing other events entirely.

You must traverse up and down this timeline, changing decisions at different moments throughout the week so that their effects interact and combine together to save all six housemates.

However, it is not just the housemates who have choices. Each of them can be saved from the fire in multiple ways, with each outcome having a profound effect on their lives in the future. Will you just search for the quickest and easiest solution, or can you find the best possible outcome for everyone?

Ultimately, everything is about choices and consequences.

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Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows19 May 2022Worldwide
PlayStation 423 May 2024Worldwide
Xbox One23 May 2024Worldwide
PlayStation 523 May 2024Worldwide
Nintendo Switch23 May 2024Worldwide
Xbox Series X/S23 May 2024Worldwide

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