Way finder is a third-person action-adventure game focused on a refuge of robots, that must head on a pilgrimage over dangerous terrain while being hunted by a relentless corporation. It is the player's role in this to lead this group through this journey and to reach the Way finder.
A core theme of the game is to avoid the extermination of the robots in your community. A large emphasis of the game will be the connection you have to the other robots in your community and empathy for them if they die / don’t make it. being able to make a personal connection to each of them individually as they will have unique faults or colour schemes to give each robot in your community individuality.
The story sees the player and a group of robot’s crash land on a mysterious world, when awakening from the crash the player is instructed with a goal, the final chance to save what’s left of his robot kind from extinction. A mysterious beacon is visible in the distance and its clear that this final chance of safety must be there. After awakening your fellow robot companions, you head out on this pilgrimage across this hospitable land. Along the way the player comes across the antagonistic organization that is hunting down and destroying all that’s left of synthetic A.I. in this world and are now hunting the player and his robotic community. After perilously sneaking and traversing through this hospitable terrain the player finally comes across the beacon and several other robots that have found refuge here. The player and his group are welcomed by a mysterious robot who seems ancient compared to the others and the player, he instructs the player and his fellow robots to enter the beacon with the other robots. Once the player has entered they are teleported to an unknown location to the player though presumably a safe place away from the people hunting them.
Wayfinder will consist of two core gameplay loops, the first concerns the enemies of the game, it details the possible outcomes of a potential encounter with enemy patrols.
The second core gameplay loop revolves around finding new robots to join you in your journey towards the beacon. It includes finding new robots during your journey, waking them up and adding them to your party where you can then command them to do 1 of 3 different actions.
The Main experience we want the player to have from the game is