Set in the near future, climate change has wrecked the planet, and a man-made extinction event has rendered Earth unsustainable for human life.

In order to survive this catastrophic collapse, a coalition formed from the world’s governments invite people to carry out aptitude tests, resulting in only a few thousand ‘descendants of humanity’ hand-picked to survive the apocalypse, cryogenically suspended in underground bunkers known as Arks until the world recovers from the impending nuclear holocaust. When news breaks of what the coalition intend to achieve, people flock to the government’s tests with demand for sanctuary far outweighing the spaces available. Only a few are selected -- those with certain undisclosed traits. Why were they chosen? What genetic qualities was the government looking for in these individuals to reseed the planet?

Last week Microïds signed a License & Distribution Agreement with Gaming Corps for The Descendant, granting Microïds the exclusive rights to publish, distribute, promote and sell The Descendant through digital and retail distribution channels for download and physical purchase worldwide.

Much is happening between quarterly reports, with Gaming Corps is in the midst of a major transformation with the closure of the studio in Uppsala and focus on Gaming Corps | Austin (formerly Red Fly) as well as the company currently looking at acquisitions, there is a need to communicate some activities. The most important are listed below. The goal is to build a profitable Gaming Corps over time. To do that the company had to close the studio in Uppsala when The Descendant did not sell well enough. The assessment was that the cost base of two studios would be too large and it would be too costly to obtain the games that are in the pipeline. Then Uppsala had no games in the pipeline, so the board and management elected to focus on the Austin studio where the company would receive the best possible conditions.

The studio in Uppsala is set to be completely phased out in late January 2017.

Gaming Corps is in discussions with potential acquisition candidates. The least common denominator is positive cash flow and operations that create synergies with Gaming Corps | Austin (Red Fly Studio). The company is also looking at various financing solutions to facilitate / enable the acquisition and to otherwise develop the business.

While the descendants sleep through the apocalypse, teams of janitors aren’t quite so lucky – their life underground spent ensuring that each of the Arks, scattered across the world, are carefully maintained so that one day, their precious cargo may wake from its slumber to repopulate the Earth, and build the new world envisioned by the coalition. Centuries pass. Earth becomes habitable again. The descendants are awakened and begin climbing out of storage — except one, Ark-01.

Players awake to explore the dangerous Ark-01 facility, both in the past, immediately after the outbreak of the ecological disaster, and in the present time of the world, seeking any survivors while unraveling a mysterious conspiracy in the process. What do the descendants do next? How do they restart, and "Was humanity worth saving?"

Written by experienced games writer Giles Armstrong (a member of both BAFTA and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, whose credits include Velocity 2X, Here Be Monsters, and the Buzz! series) The Descendant features two intertwining narratives. In the past you’ll play as Mia, an Ark janitor tasked with keeping the precious descendants housed inside Ark-01 alive, while in the present you’ll play as Donnie, one of the investigators trying to rescue any survivors who may still be trapped within the facility.

The Descendant is currently available as digital download through Steam.