TW: Needles, Meat texture, insect-like parasite, light swearing 

Broswer version available! https://awesometems.itch.io/sewersect-web

A short description  

The story takes place in an underground environment during an indoctrination ceremony following your 18th birthday. You are held down as executives administer you a ‘vaccine.’ You’re told that it protects you from the outside world, but in reality, it’s a stomach-eating parasite. With the remaining strength you can muster, you break free and run towards the exit.

Controls / how to play  

Sewer Sect is a dungeon-crawler puzzle game where you explore the sewers in which you were raised in.

Objective: Find an exit and escape

Click on entranceways: travel through rooms

Click on the bottom of the screen: travel backwards

Notes on the parasite minigame:

• Parasites will grow in the stomach area. Drag the parasites to the box to collect them . Collect enough, and maybe you can fight back.... (20)

• The amount of parasites in your stomach = the rate at which your hunger decays
• The number of parasites that spawn grows exponentially based on the number of parasites left in your stomach
• Run out of hunger = death

Credits 

Visual Assets: All drawn assets were created by the team; however, realistic photos, including backgrounds and textures were taken from online. 

Audio: Properly licensed through itch.io under Chequered Ink 10,000 Game Assets Pack.

An explanation of how your project relates to the given theme

The most obvious way our project relates to the theme is that execs at the beginning of the story administer parasites into you. You must manage their population while searching for an exit. 

In addition, the cult execs act as parasites themselves. By stripping away your freedom, they receive the colony’s labor and humanity while giving nothing in return. It could also be argued that by keeping the cult members weak, they develop a reliance, which makes them and yourself parasitic in nature to the cult execs.