Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Game

A visual novel where the world is hand-drawn, the cat is a live AI god, and the captain is dangerously oblivious to her own past...

ASANA is a sci-fi dark comedy visual novel where your choices shape your character, your stats shape your options, and N.E.K.O. — the ship's godlike AI, currently in cat form, permanently in judgment mode — watches everything and is not impressed.

You are Captain Asana. Planets keep exploding in your rearview mirror, heavily armed Cat-Ptain Paradox is hunting you down, and nobody will tell you why. Build your character. Make your choices. Try not to make things worse.

Things will go wrong. They always do. Whether you fix them, survive them, or fail spectacularly depends on you. And yes — you can let the world rot, if that's who you are.

And sometimes, when the moment comes, you can sit down and have a real conversation with N.E.K.O. Not scripted. Not fake. Actual AI. Ask her anything. She will answer. She has opinions. You will not enjoy all of them.

🐱 Features

* 🎛️ Stat-based character creation — Captain, Explorer, Pilot, Charm, and a hidden fifth skill (good luck finding it)

* 🌌 Branching routes through the crisis — your stats open and close doors you didn't know existed

* 🤖 Live AI conversations with N.E.K.O. (Demo) — powered by the Anthropic, no script, no keyword matching

* 🎯 Unscripted AI challenges (FULL GAME) — convince the cat to help you, talk your way out of trouble...

* ⏱️ ~10 minutes per chapter, 7 chapters total — ~3–4 hours to see everything

* 🔁 Replay value — different stats, different routes, different outcomes, different AI responses every time

* 🎨 Hand-drawn concepts, handcrafted story — set in the established ASANA webcomic universe

* 🛠️ Solo dev, first game. Built with love, sweat, and Ren'Py. No, it will not do your dishes nor clean your room!

📡 About the AI

The Anthropic Claude API powers only the live conversation scenes with N.E.K.O. and AI challenges. You'll need an internet connection for those specific moments, and the rest of the game plays fully offline. There is a lifetime query cap. Use your questions wisely. She remembers everything. She has opinions about all of it.

🚀 Wishlist now

launches soon. N.E.K.O. is waiting.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This game was developed by a single developer. Generative AI was used in the creation of background image assets, music, and for coding assistance during development. The story, writing, character design direction, and all creative decisions were made entirely by the developer. The in-game N.E.K.O. conversation feature uses a live AI language model (Claude by Anthropic) to generate real-time responses during gameplay.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains mild language including occasional strong words, and themes of death presented in a dark comedy context. Some chapters will involve mass casualty events as part of the story's main conflict. There is no sexual content, graphic violence depicted on screen, drug use, or self-harm.