Anamnesis: The Eidolon Tapestries is a playable philosophy, presented as a recursive, myth-weaving RPG. It uses a deep social and psychological simulation to generate a tapestry of unique, emergent life stories. The core loop is a cycle of living a story, distilling its meaning, and using that meaning to become an author for the next reality.
As a story generator, ATET draws inspiration from genre-defining colony sims like RimWorld, but with a profoundly different focus. Where those games tell stories of external survival, ATET generates narratives of internal, philosophical survival. The core conflict is not your colony against the world; it is your Incarnation’s beliefs against reality itself.
This experience is configurable in every sense. At the meta-level, you have extensive dials to tune your world. Within the game, the journey from a mortal Incarnation to a world-weaving Eidolon makes you the author of the next procedural reality. This ethos of player authorship is supported by deep, built-in tools for modding and content creation, empowering you to add everything from personal quests to entire new game systems to the shared narrative universe.
ATET poses a unique question: How do we define that which we call the self? You can play any role you choose; God, king, peasant, or prophet. The true journey is discovering who you are when your beliefs are tested, your memories are fallible, and your very perception of the world is a playable mechanic.