serverBound: press kit
https://solitaryfunc.fyi/serverbound/#press

One line
A detective game where the crime scene is somebody's homepage.

Short description
Corporate AI broke the internet, so people rebuilt it by hand. Now something is eating it. Walk their paper-and-ink islands, read each one like a crime scene and work out the rule of whatever's attacking it. Then fight it in a turn-based duel with no dice, no levels and no excuses.

About the game
Corporate AI broke the old internet. Nobody was surprised. So people built a new one by hand: the World Wide Wonder, a patchwork of tiny self-hosted islands with guestbooks, zines, visitor counters and at least one grandmother's blog. It's drawn in grey paper and ink. Anything red is a problem.

You are a lurker. It's a real rank, and yes, it's the bottom one. When something starts eating somebody's server, you walk their island, read its records, listen in on its cables and ask the locals what they saw. Every clue drops words into a case report, and a sentence only locks when two different kinds of clue agree.

Then you plug in and prove it. The duel is turn-based, and every threat plays by a rule: ransomware takes the shortest way to the archive, a phisher hooks the nearest house, an ad server keeps making bots. Work the rule out and the fight is a puzzle. No levels, no hit points, no dice. You don't get stronger. You just get less wrong.

Facts
Developer: Solitary Func (one person: Aswin Behera)
Based in: Bhubaneswar, India
Platform: Windows, on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3636760/serverBound/
Release: demo coming soon; full game planned for 2027
Price: to be announced
Genre: detective, puzzle, turn-based tactics
Players: single-player, keyboard and mouse
Languages: English text, no voice acting
Engine: Godot 4
Music: DeadDreamer, made for the game
Shown at: IGDC 2024; Indie Games Utsav, Mumbai Comic Con 2025

Trailers
Gameplay trailer (79 s): https://solitaryfunc.fyi/sb/press/serverbound-gameplay-trailer-720p.mp4
World reveal trailer (57 s): https://solitaryfunc.fyi/sb/trailer.mp4
Clips: Defence Faction https://solitaryfunc.fyi/sb/defence-faction.mp4 · Strike Team https://solitaryfunc.fyi/sb/strike-team.mp4 · The lady of flowers https://solitaryfunc.fyi/sb/lady-of-flowers.mp4

Streaming and video
Stream it, record it, monetise it. You don't need to ask. The music is custom, made for the game by DeadDreamer; the sound effects are CC0 field recordings and synth. If a video gets a claim anyway, email and it gets sorted. One favour: keep the demo's last scene out of thumbnails and titles.

Contact
aswinkumarbehera@gmail.com
