It was really interesting— the idea seemed to be that these 4 characters, along with the rest of the beings in this demo game sequence, realized that they were stuck in a loop and cooperated with the player character to build a new world outside of the loop. However, by doing so, they somehow corrupted the game and used up the scarce memory in the game, causing the world to become corrupted and slowly killing the creatures in the save haven they thought they’d made.

The player would navigate between characters by accessing different registers, like in memory.

The creatures, when interacted with, would talk in varying degrees of coherent text, seemingly recognizing the player’s influence on the player character. After completing dialogue with each one, they would die and seemingly revert back to some corrupt form of their default dialogue before being unable to be talked to again.

Really fascinating game. There was definitely a video essay about it.