From Fellow Traveller:
Set in Antarctica in 1939, Penguin Colony follows two rival expeditions heading further into the frozen continent in pursuit of something ancient, uncaring, and best left alone. One expedition, the Nazis, has come to Antarctica seeking an ancient power they believe could provide proof of their own superiority. The other, a Kaitiaki expedition, is attempting to stop them and return whatever lies beneath the ice to its slumber.
You do not care about either expedition beyond curiosity, because you are a penguin. One of many, from the local colony.
You will waddle, swim, and slide across Antarctica as different species of penguins, each with their own abilities and limitations, and follow the humans into places they were never supposed to reach. Squeeze through tiny spaces, eavesdrop on conversations, and uncover environmental details and increasingly inexplicable evidence of what is happening around you.
You are only a witness to the humans that have brought their ambitions, ideologies, and conflicts to Antarctica. Your curiosity drives you to observe what happens next. The game’s Insight system can change what you’re capable of perceiving, while strange imagery, hidden discoveries, and environmental storytelling will leave you to determine what you’ve witnessed for yourself.
Drawing inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, John Carpenter’s The Thing, David Lynch, and the experimental horror design of the PlayStation 2 era, Penguin Colony embraces ambiguity, vulnerability, and the uncomfortable feeling that there are things in the world too big - too ancient - to understand.
Penguin Colony draws deeply from weird fiction while interrogating the assumptions beneath it, exploring colonialism, human ideologies, and the horror of discovering that humanity was never particularly important.
