During INDIE Live Expo 2024, WSS Playground and Bukiri Clock announced that Boyhood’s End Episode 1 will release on September 6 for PC in Steam Early Access. Originally, the game was scheduled to release within fall 2023 after its delays to August 2023 and spring 2024.
Boyhood’s End is a new sci-fi puzzle adventure game set in a world is ruled by a mechanical overlord, R. Karellen. This antagonist rates people with a “human score” that encompasses academic and professional careers, romantic interests, one’s daily meals, and so much more. The protagonist, Giovanni, happens to have the lowest human score in the entire race.
Boyhood’s End Early Access Release
The first episode of Boyhood’s End will release on September 6 in Steam Early Access. A total of five chapters will be released over time. The Steam Early Access period is expected to last 10 months, so the full game’s release is seemingly locked for 2025. A console release has not been confirmed, however.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the game’s intriguing characters, via Steam:
Giovanni
“Shut up! I couldn’t care less about your twisted logic, but here’s the thing, I’m a human! And you’d better start treating me like one!”
Has a wanted criminal as a father and the lowest human score in the universe. Gets treated like trash by other people and even the system itself.
Has a cynical personality and a sharp tongue, but has a soft spot for his family. Always has to earn money to pay his sister’s hospital fees.
Although he lives in an age where humans haven’t had to write programs by themselves for generations, Giovanni knows the ancient craftsman technique of writing his own code from scratch. He frequently uses his coding skills to do shady side gigs on the dark web.
Campanella
“Come on, show me! Show me the true potential of humanity! Show me something unpredictable, something that could ruin the world as we know it—something a man-made thing could never do!”
Has the highest human score in the Gymnasium, and very talented in everything from academics to sports, but also has the highest total score deduction in the Gymnasium due to his frequent eccentric behavior. Talk about extreme.
Campanella holds “humans” in high regard, and acts arrogantly around the inhuman and artificially intelligent R. However, many claim to have seen him chatting and playing around with R for no reason in particular.
