Tron-like with Metroid style gameplay.
A Kickstarter Video Game

Play as Bit, a self-aware artificial intelligence and explore this digital world.
Do the bidding of the powerful artificial intelligence, STU, or help humans in their fight for survival.

<Free Demo Coming Soon>

With exploration at its heart, you'll discover a vast digital world full of artificial life and humans struggling to control them. You will encounter many weapons, items, abilities, secrets, and even humans plugged into the network.

Features

• Experience 5 unique biomes in this digital world, full of puzzles, secrets, enemies, characters, and bosses. 
• Unlock game-changing abilities, explore, fight, solve puzzles, and uncover previously inaccessible areas in a Metroidvania-esque style.
• Discover the 50 different human characters and go on many quests.
• Fight in real-time combat using the 30+ unique weapons each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
• ​Experience a story about finding humanity in artificial life and AI's discovering emotion in this 20+ hours single-player adventure.  ​

Collect weapons and devastate your digital foes!

• Explore 5 large biomes (digital forest, mountains, volcanoes, caves, deserts...) and is full of secrets, enemies, weapons, quests, and characters to meet. 

• Bosses present unique challenges, mixing combat, exploration, and puzzles all into one intense moment.  

• Combat - Supplied with weapons, abilities, and magic-like attacks, you're free to handle fights in your own style. Upgrade the weapons that you really like.

• Abilities - Unlock and upgrade various abilities that will help you in combat, puzzles, and accessing new areas. ​

• Puzzle-solving - You'll find physics-based puzzles, tricky environmental shifting, and you'll have to utilize all your abilities to solve the puzzles.

• Story - Unravel the mysteries and origin of humans vs artificial intelligence in this 20+ hours single-player adventure. 

• Developer: Me First Games
• Location: Kennewick, WA
• Release Date: 2023
• Website: https://www.mefirstgames.com
• Availability: PC, Nintendo Switch
• Press Contact: matt.miller@mefirstgames.com
• Social: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube  Discord
• Kickstarter: April 2022
• Demo Release Date: April 2022​​​

Hi friends! I'm Matthew Miller, the solo developer behind STU, the First AI. 

​I fell in love with video games very young. Playing games like Metroid, Zelda, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy, I was awestruck by their epic stories and the extreme difficulties the heroes faced. As an extremely shy child, these stories inspired me to start facing my own fears and make video games. 

​I've been working in mobile games for over 10 years now, and although I'm grateful for the experience and friendships, the world of free-to-play and casino-like games has burnt me out. I even considered abandoning my life-long dream of being a game developer.

​But creating STU has saved me. This game has revitalized my spirit and love for games. I constantly find myself smiling while developing, even into the sleep-deprived hours of the night.​

I dream of creating a truly epic adventure, similar to the games I played growing up. For that to happen, this passion project needs to turn into a full-time role. I want to use all my time and energy to create a content-rich world, full of secrets for you to uncover. 

With this Kickstarter campaign, you can help change my life and make this dream become a reality. Working a full-time job and taking care of my family leaves me with very little time to create STU and this digital world. With the funds, I will quit my job and dedicate 100% of my time to creating a truly epic adventure.

Sign up for the FREE Demo below (TBA).