Prima Materia is a dark surreal visual novel set in a sterilized wasteland ruled by Angels, where consciousness is harvested, brewed, and sold. Mana, a Mind Digger who survives by eating minds, takes one last job: fixing a demi-angel worth keeping whole.

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About This Game

Story
"I must reject morality because it serves those in power; this is a mechanical world where I am nothing but a mechanical device and so is everyone else. Everything's real, nothing's in your head."

In the Concrete Sea, an endless grey wasteland beneath a sun that never sets, consciousness is a resource. Angels farm humans for it, brewing it over centuries into Prima Materia, a luminous orange liquid that can be distilled and most importantly, consumed. Mana is a Mind Digger, someone who carves psyches for a living, extracting and eating what others don't want to carry anymore: guilt, fear, memories.

Her self-contained existence collapses with the arrival of Girin: the rebellious daughter of an ancient Angel, dropped at Mana's door with a simple request to "fix" her, in exchange for an infinite supply of Prima Materia. Girin's untamable nature doesn't make things easy, but it's what lies deep inside her mind that scares Mana. Something old and protective is waiting, something that recognizes Mana for what she is and that has no interest in letting her anywhere near Girin's core.

What begins as a transaction quickly becomes something stranger, more intimate, and far more dangerous. Because the deeper Mana digs, the more she finds the memory of the person she was before she carved herself down to appetite and survival.

Features

  • 39,000 words (around 2–3 hours of reading)

  • A philosophical story about about consciousness, alchemy, and the nature of self-reflection

  • A kinetic storyline with no choices/branches

  • 50 unique CGs and backgrounds at native 4K resolution

  • An original OST as thematically dense as the writing

  • The horror of the human psyche and also it's genuine beauty

  • A deep setting with endless symbolism to unravel

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Prima Materia contains violence, including combat with some graphic detail, and surreal body horror imagery. The game touches on themes of addiction, manipulation and self-destruction. Suicide is briefly depicted, only as a silhouette, not shown graphically or in detail. There is use of suggestive clothing, such as tight suits and a bikini, but no nudity. Fictitious drugs are commonly used. Players sensitive to any of these subjects should be aware they are present in the story.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7
    • Graphics: 1280 x 720
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.