Captain Beast

Humanity is at a crossroads. They fight over plots of land, they kill each other over small differences, they use LLMs to decide tariff rates.

Something is needed to unify the species. Something we can all rally around. We need to find a perfect beast.

There must be one out there in the universe, somewhere. All we have to do is find it.

Good luck, Captain.

Created for Atari's "I, Rebel" game jam, celebrating the career of Jeff Minter. Theme: "A Perfect Beast". Inspired by Captain Blood (1988, Atari ST). If you enjoyed this game, check out my main project, Reality Drift, on Steam!

Winner of the "Heart of the Jam" award. From Atari on their Discord server: "The Heart of the Jam award was decided by Jeff Minter for a game that touched him personally. He and Ivan were personally very attached to this concept"

Watch me play through the game and talk about the thought process behind it:

As of 31st Oct 2025, the downloads have been updated to fix the Unity security issue, and also to enable vsync on the Windows build so that it doesn't max out the GPU.

Known issue: the game will not end if you destroy Arctaurus without getting the coordinates first, you will need to restart manually.