Human Upgrade Labs

With a new addition of an epilogue Human Upgrade Labs is finished!

A free demo containing around a third of the game is available below.

In this game you will be playing a role of a fool, I'm sorry, a volunteer who signed up to participate in the tests going on in the Human Upgrade Labs in the far future Earth. You heard rumors that anyone who manages to pass the various tests designed to improve you in every conceivable way will have new and amazing possibilities unlocked in life. That, or be completely broken mentally. The tests you take will essentially be various mini games, over 30 of them, placed into several different categories, using multiple, sometimes experimental visual styles and combined into a single story.

Multiple new levels become available at a time, so you can choose the order in which you want to progress through the game while discovering more about this strange future world. Some levels are meant to be played once like this one where you will be teaching a robot to feel:

Or this one where you have to tell apart old tech from cutting edge tech:

Or this one where you have to haggle for funds with accountant from your nightmares:

Other levels track your best score and test how far you can push a specific skill. Like this one where you need to prevent as many wooden enemies from escaping as possible:

Or this one where you have to guide observation( spy ) drones past a sentinel creature:

Or this one where you have to gather funds by planting solar power generating trees:

All levels get you closer to a final epilogue level offered only to the ones who can complete the majority of the tests, or get high enough scores in certain levels and receive the invitation earlier this way.

Also each level unlocks new character customization options:

Many levels also give a deeper glimpse into the strange world this takes place on:

And why is the world cube shaped anyway?

If you want to see what was added over time then check out the devlog below, especially the updates marked as major.

The images I included probably gave you a hint, but I am primarily a visual artist and I work as an illustrator and concept artist in daily life. I am making this game by myself whenever I can find free time. It serves as an outlet for a lot of my stranger ideas and a great motivator to keep pushing my art skills. Obviously I'm learning a lot about programming, game design, world building etc along the way. I like to experiment with various art styles and different subject matter so I came up with the concept for this game in order to be able to place all those different ideas in one game and still somewhat make sense. My previous game - Dream mechanic, served the same purpose, but this one gives me so much more freedom due to the mini game approach. Obviously not everything I come up with can fit in due to story reasons, or maybe because something wouldn't make sense game play-vise and stay as little side projects, but in this game variety is the key. I enjoy making that and I enjoy playing games that provide something different from the standard forest and lava levels and I hope that you will enjoy that aspect of this game as well.