La Mission Kaiyō

The Kaiyo Mission is a peaceful, casual, deep-space, underwater exploration game set on hostile environments of alien ocean worlds.

The players embark in three different mission phases that lead them to various underwater plateaus of ocean worlds, including the Saturnian moon Enceladus. They will control a submarine or a diver and take photographs of alien animals, plants and artefacts. A tutorial level is available, and a bonus mission phase with several self-contained games is opened upon successful completion of the initial three phases.

Key Features of The Kaiyo Mission:

A unique story based on real research and a hard science-fiction adventure.
The game triggers the curiosity of the player to explore alien underwater worlds that are peaceful but dangerous, performing research tasks. The different vision modes, sound effects and music make the experience varied and engaging. Some of the context is realistic to a certain extent, based on real research, science and hard science-fiction. The player is placed in an international context, where humanity works together to push the boundaries of knowledge…

Use of African music in a science-fiction game.
Not many people associate space travel and the exploration of our universe with anything related to Africa. This is often so, because many of us are biased to rather associate these topics with classical music, or sometimes western music, or bespoke ‘futuristic‘ music. The Kaiyō Mission wants to break this sub-conscious bias.

An indie game localised in Basaa language.
The Kaiyo Mission is probably the first indie game localised in the Basaa language, widely spoken in Western Africa.

Mini games on an alien planet based on traditional African games.
Some traditional games of the Basaa tribe are included in the Bonus Mission Phase perpetuating these parts of African culture that are threatened of being lost in the near future…

No generative AI has been used for the content of The Kaiyo Mission.
At eXplore Studio, we value the creative work of human artists in the widest sense. Together, we and our partners create our own stories, game design, graphic art, 3D models, sound effects, music, and voice acting, and appropriately use and reference other human work as relevant, without infringing other people’s IP rights. We do not use generative AI for the content of our games, but human creativity.
Love the Art.
Love the Artist.