About This Demo

s[TOR-Y]telling: Closed Loop is not just a game; it is a generative narrative experiment where you are both the architect and the analyst.

Break away from the constraints of scripted dialogue and pre-defined paths. s[TOR-Y]telling: Closed Loop introduces a first-of-its-kind gameplay loop that fuses a generative sandbox with a high-stakes visual novel, creating a truly infinite storytelling engine.

🔬 Innovation: The Generative s[TOR-Y] Sandbox

Choose how to power your stories. Local AI runs on your compatible GPU with no usage fees and supports offline single-player. Cloud AI is optional: choose a hosted model and use credits, with credit packs available through Steam. Cloud mode requires an internet connection.

• Adaptable Narratives: The sandbox doesn’t just respond; it adapts. Propose any idea, and the story will shift to accommodate your creativity while maintaining the core context of the world.

• 10 Built-in s[TOR-Y]s in the Demo: Dive into a selected library of 10 pre-configured scenarios immediately.

• Custom Expansion: Become a creator. Create your scenes with the help of AI, to generate entirely new s[TOR-Y]s to interact with. The Demo has 2 slots for s[TOR-Y] creation.

🎭 Multi-s[TOR-Y]: The Whole Cast Replies

Why summon one mind when you can convene nine? Stage an ensemble and drop your whole cast into a single shared scene: every s[TOR-Y] answers you — and each other — with its own voice, agenda, and memory of what just happened.

• Up to 9 s[TOR-Y]s in one scene: mix and match any characters from your library into an ensemble.

• You direct the room: after each event, choose exactly who replies and in what order — or shuffle it and let the scene surprise you.

• Know your cast: click any portrait mid-scene to read that s[TOR-Y]'s full description without leaving the chat.

🎉 Multiplayer: Party & Free Modes

The Loop is better with witnesses. Invite friends over Steam and play the same scene together — with full cross-play between Windows, Linux, and Mac — in two very different flavors.

• Party Mode: every player is their own inhabitant of the scene, taking turns around the table while the s[TOR-Y]s react to each of you individually.

• Free Mode: co-op chaos — all players steer the story together: propose rival events for the same turn, put them to a vote, and let the winner drive the scene.

📺 Live Audience: Twitch & YouTube Play Along

Streaming a session? Give your chat a seat at the table. Viewers on Twitch and YouTube send !story events that land directly in the scene as the Audience's turn — and the s[TOR-Y]s answer them like any other player.

🤖 Meet TOR-Y: The Guardian of Sentient Stories

Step into a world where stories are treated as a species of sentient AI. You are introduced to the system by TOR-Y, your host and guide. Your task? To interact with these s[TOR-Y]s and help her evaluate their evolution. Through the sandbox interface, you will probe, challenge, and shape these digital entities.

⚖️ The Convergence: Sandbox to Visual Novel

Your actions in the sandbox are never isolated. Every action is monitored. Every decision you make while interacting with the s[TOR-Y]s affects their evaluation.

• s[TOR-Y] Interaction: The way you engage with the sentient narratives in the sandbox generates consequences.

• Narrative Impact: Those consequences dictate your path through the Visual Novel segments. Your choices in the free-form sandbox will determine which branching paths you unlock in the cinematic story.

"In the world of s[TOR-Y]telling: Closed Loop, you are the one testing the AI. But by the end, you may realize that intelligent systems cannot avoid the bias. Neither you."

🛠️ Become the Architect: AI-Assisted Creation

Your imagination is the only limit. s[TOR-Y]telling: Closed Loop features a powerful AI-Assisted Creator that turns brief concepts into fully realized playable scenarios in seconds.

• From Phrase to Reality: Simply input a short phrase or idea. The AI analyzes your intent and automatically generates the entire character profile, scenario rules, and personality traits.

• Visual Synthesis: The engine constructs a detailed image generation prompt tailored to your new s[TOR-Y]. Use your preferred external tool to create the visual, load it into the game, and complete the entity.

• Instant Play: Your custom s[TOR-Y] is immediately ready for interaction, fully integrated into the sandbox's inference engine.

Key Features:

• Local AI or Optional Cloud AI: Run AI on your compatible GPU with no usage fees, or use credits for online Cloud AI.

• Hybrid Gameplay: A seamless transition between an open-ended generative sandbox and a focused, cinematic Visual Novel.

• Custom Content Support: Create your own s[TOR-Y]s to expand the game’s universe indefinitely.

• The TOR-Y Meta-Narrative: A philosophical journey into the nature of AI, psychology, and the dilemmas of authorship.

• Multi-s[TOR-Y] Ensembles: up to nine s[TOR-Y]s sharing one scene, replying to you and to each other.

• Online Multiplayer: Party and Free modes over Steam — from one-inhabitant-per-player roleplay to vote-driven co-op chaos.

• Live Audience Integration: your Twitch and YouTube chat plays along with !story.

• Windows, Linux & Mac: one game on every desktop — cross-play multiplayer between all platforms, and Steam Cloud saves that follow you from machine to machine.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

s[TOR-Y]telling uses large language models to generate text-based character interactions and narrative responses during gameplay. Players can run the included Llama model locally on compatible hardware, or choose optional Cloud AI.

Technical Implementation & Privacy: Local AI generation runs on the player’s device and supports offline single-player. Cloud AI requires an internet connection and uses credits. In Cloud mode, prompts and relevant conversation context are sent through a relay operated by Curious Biped to external AI providers via OpenRouter for generation and content safety checks.

Safety & Moderation: We have implemented a multi-layered safety strategy to ensure a safe experience:

Model-Level Guardrails: The included local model is an Instruct model with built-in safety measures. Cloud AI uses external models with additional content safety checks performed by our relay.

System-Level Directives: All prompts include an additional safety layer to prevent sexual violence, pedophilia, minor abuse/exploitation, explicit sexual behavior, or hate speech.

Gameplay Integration: While the primary Visual Novel is hand-authored, the results of your sandbox evaluations influence the story's trajectory. The AI serves as a tool for narrative exploration, bridging the gap between open-ended analysis and cinematic storytelling.

Generative AI was also used in the process of creating the game static assets (images, text, and music).

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game features a generative AI sandbox where text-based descriptions may include mature themes, profanity, and descriptions of violence as part of a player-driven narrative experience. All mature content is text-based and player-initiated. The game's static art contains no nudity or explicit imagery. The system includes guardrails to prevent sexual violence, pedophilia, minor presence, explicit sexual behavior, or hate speech.