The Great Machine screenshots

Title screen

Background

Introduction: a nightmare

First choice

Exposition

Setting the mood and tone

Something is wrong with the world

Learning your mission

Departing on your mission

Establishing further ill mood

Another nightmare

Something is /very/ wrong with the world

You think you've had awkward moments?

The author has taken an approach of modern poetry to jarringly convey an alienating effect mere prose would stumble with.

The story continues

Awakening from yet another nightmare to the ongoing nightmare of your waking life

As illness and exposure take their toll, the computer becomes what is described as an "unreliable narrator"

The plot thickens

Salvation from the enemy

The Great Machine