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Alternate between Ark caretaker Mia and investigator Donnie, exploring a failing bunker, solving puzzles, and making survival choices.
Released 24 Mar 2016
Keep Ark Survivors Alive
Investigate Ark-01
Switch Between Eras
In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.
Developed by Gaming Corps AB · Published by Microids Indie, Microids









After climate catastrophe and a human-made extinction event, a select group of people is cryogenically preserved in underground Arks. Centuries later, Ark-01 remains closed while the others have reopened.
The five-episode story follows two characters in different timelines: Mia, responsible for keeping Ark-01's residents alive as the facility fails, and Donnie, an investigator searching the bunker for survivors and answers.
Explore the Ark, interact with objects, solve puzzles, talk with characters, and face occasional action sequences. Dialogue and other choices can affect events and characters' fates, with consequences unfolding across episodes.
Among the supplied player reviews, recurring praise focuses on the sci-fi mystery, the atmosphere of Ark-01, and the way the two timelines build on each other. Some players also enjoy the difficult survival decisions and character drama. Others find the pace slow, the point-and-click controls awkward, and the puzzles simple; opinions differ on how much choices change the story.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 50 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Metacritic | 59/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |