Long Shadow

About

Nothing ends. It only casts a longer shadow. Earth is dying.

Water is rationed. Fuel has become scarce. Electricity fails without warning. Armed soldiers guard power stations, reservoirs and transport hubs while governments insist that recovery is still possible. Behind closed doors they are deciding who will be evacuated and who will be left behind.

You begin in 2098 as an ordinary parent trying to keep a family together during the final years of Earth.

You won’t remain that person for long.

Long Shadow is a text-first, choice-driven science-fiction RPG where you guide a single family across more than four centuries of human history. Every generation inherits the consequences of the last. Children become parents. Parents become memories. Eventually they become history.

When a character dies, the story continues through their descendants.

Your family inherits property, relationships, reputation, legal rights, unfinished disputes, old promises and forgotten mistakes. A record created during Earth’s evacuation may decide a court case two hundred years later. A law written after a desperate winter may shape an empire. Someone your family abandoned generations ago may still have descendants who remember.

There are no hero levels to grind.

There is only the family you leave behind.

A branching family saga Long Shadow is a branching narrative RPG set in a persistent world that remembers every generation.

Guide your family through Earth’s collapse, humanity’s evacuation, life aboard Lunar Base, centuries inside a failing generation ship, the founding of New Earth and the expansion of civilisation across the stars.

Every playthrough creates a different family history.

Raise children. Build relationships. Establish settlements. Write laws. Command starships. Explore distant systems. Decide what survives each generation and what is left behind.

Governments preserve records.

Families preserve memories.

History judges both.

Earth is ending The first decisions feel ordinary because the disaster has become routine.

Your child still goes to school. Bills still arrive. Food still needs cooking. Outside, queues grow longer every week. Water restrictions tighten. Rolling blackouts interrupt daily life. Fewer vehicles pass the house because fuel has become too valuable to waste. Military checkpoints appear around reservoirs, substations and transport routes. Everyone knows someone who has disappeared into an evacuation programme. Nobody knows how those decisions are made.

You decide what your family sees.

Do you explain what is happening, or protect your child from it for one more day?

Do you store food or help the neighbour who has already run out?

Do you keep the lights on tonight, knowing tomorrow’s electricity may cost even more?

These moments shape the household long before anyone leaves Earth.

When the evacuation begins, your family carries more than luggage.

It carries habits, trust, fear and memories that will follow every generation that comes after.

Pass through the Defence of Earth Complex The evacuation begins long before anyone reaches a spacecraft.

Families disappear into processing centres built to move millions of people without slowing down. Every queue has a purpose. Every checkpoint produces another record. Every official decision follows your household long after Earth has been left behind.

Identity scans.

Medical examinations.

Property declarations.

Guardian verification.

Manifest interviews.

Psychological screening.

You decide what to declare, what to conceal and when to argue.

Sometimes the safest decision is to remain invisible.

Sometimes silence costs more than honesty.

Not every family reaches the next checkpoint together.

Children can be reassigned. Records can be damaged. A single disagreement may leave one parent behind while the rest of the household continues towards launch.

The people processing your family are not villains.

Most are exhausted.

Many are making impossible…

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