Ascetic Experience

Take a short hike towards the coast in this realistic and cinematic gameplay segment that leverages many of the advanced tools Unreal Engine 5 has to offer.

You can play the game with keyboard/mouse or a controller. Headphones are recommended.

Ascetic Experience offers an immersive journey that includes seamless transition between cinematics and gameplay. The environment is filled with high quality assets and lush vegetation thanks to Nanite. There is also only one light source illuminating the whole scene thanks to Lumen GI.

The game allows you to switch cameras in menus to view the environment from different angles.

There is also a slider in the main menu that allows you to manipulate time which rotates the light source (the sun) along with changing cloud formation giving you the ability to control a timelapse animation.

In the settings menu, you can activate Black Bars that will appear during the cutscenes. The settings menu also includes many Post-Process options that allow you to change the scene's overall visual style.

It took me around two months to create this experience and most of it was performance optimization. I managed to get the game working on high-end computers, but I also added many graphics options to make sure that it would be possible to play the game regardless of your setup even if the visuals will see major downgrade.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems. I'll push updates if necessary.