I built a thing. It started as a weekend experiment and turned into something I can’t stop playing.

Project AEGIS is a text-based RPG with a retro CRT terminal aesthetic. You play as an Asset — a field operative deployed to a crisis on orbital station Kestrel-7. Your handler, Mission Control, watches your biometrics in real-time, tracks your compliance, and adapts to every choice you make.

There are no dialogue trees. No predetermined paths. Everything happens through natural language — Mission Control is a live LLM that responds dynamically to whatever you type. Tell it you’re going to ignore orders and breach the airlock? It’ll panic. Your oxygen drops below 50%? It starts pleading. Hit zero? You die.

What Makes It Different

Most AI games feel like chatbots wearing a costume. AEGIS works differently because the AI has live access to your game state — biometrics, objectives, compliance score, environmental sensors — and it uses that data to shape every response. The LLM doesn’t just narrate; it runs Mission Control as a character with motivations, anxiety, and a mandate to keep you alive.

A few highlights:

• 3-mission campaign — Infiltration, Containment, and Extraction across Kestrel-7
• Dynamic HUD with real-time stat bars, alerts, and objective tracking
• Compliance scoring that carries across missions and determines your final operator grade (S through D)
• Genre-portable engine — all the sci-fi flavor lives in a single config file. Swap it out and you’ve got a fantasy RPG, a noir detective game, whatever you want
• BYOK — bring your own OpenRouter API key, no server-side storage

Try It

The whole thing runs in your browser. Type your orders, watch the HUD react, and see how long you can keep Mission Control from losing it.