The MMO you are standing in is being shut down for good.
A wall of deletion sweeps the world, and whatever it reaches is gone: the mobs, the heroes, the raid boss, the lot.
You are the archivist.
Reach the creatures before the wall does, pull them into your archive, and carry out as much of this dying world as you can.

The wall chases you. Every rescue shoves it back, so a run is a tug-of-war: dive for the valuable ones, grab them right at the edge for a clutch worth several times more, and hold your combo.
Push too hard and the wall takes you.
Play it safe and you leave the best ones to be erased.

How to play

• Move into a creature to pull it into your archive.
• Every rescue pushes the wall back. 
• Bigger and closer to the wall means a bigger shove.
• Clutch: grab a valuable one right against the wall, high risk but high reward for your score.
• Surge fills as you rescue. Fire it to blast the wall back when you are cornered.
• Take Bonus along the way, avoid the Malus's
• Survive long enough and THE OVERSEER arrives.

Controls

• Move: WASD / ZQSD / arrow keys
• Sprint: SHIFT  ·  Surge: SPACE
• Gamepad supported. (Xbox/PS and other controllers)
• Sprint and Surge can be rebinded in options
• Menus and the daily board take mouse or keyboard.

Your archive is yours No account, no login.
Once the page has loaded, the game runs entirely on your machine.
Your record lives in a plaintext file and a PNG memorial you download to your own disk with one key: readable by anything, forever, with or without this page.
When a server dies, your data should not die with it.

Browser: needs WebGL 2. A DRM-free Windows/Linux/MacOS download is also provided.

Made with Godot for the Stop Killing Games Community Jam 2026.
Every shape is drawn by two shaders; there is not a single sprite image in the game. Every sound is synthesised by a Python script from Kenney's CC0 drum samples. Solo entry by Az0Te.

Note for Linux users : 
If you want to use the Linux build : 

chmod +x ARCHIVISTE.x86_64 && ./ARCHIVISTE.x86_64

Note for MacOS users :
The build is not signed (im poor) :

xattr -cr ARCHIVISTE.app

Or right click it → Open