Out October 28, 2026 · Free on itch.io

ASTER network · Unit 03

Poste 03

November 16, 1987. You are agent U.03, assigned to a sorting station of the ASTER network. A 9-minute shift. Three faults allowed. Procedure handles the rest.

Release
Oct. 28, 2026
Price
Free
One shift
6 · 9 · 12 min
Languages
9
Platform
Windows

01 / Assignment

Trust the screen, not the label.

Packages come down from the ceiling. You scan them, route them to A, B or C, or send them to isolation. Labels lie. Only the scanner’s screen tells the truth, if you know how to watch it.

The facility never raises its voice. It counts your faults. After each one, it asks you to walk to the sanction machine yourself.

This page only presents the starting point. No key element of the game is revealed.

02 / Trailer

One value lies.

Fifty-five seconds in the sorting room. Turn the sound up.

Trailer · EN · 0:55

03 / The procedure

Four machines to learn.

  1. 01 · Scanner

    Read the screen

    Every package goes under the scanner. The green screen gives its zone, mass and recipient. That is what you trust.

  2. 02 · Routing

    Trap A, B or C

    Three buttons, three destinations. The package leaves on the conveyor, and every routing error is recorded.

  3. 03 · Isolation

    Set it aside

    Some packages must not leave. The amber isolation pit is waiting for them.

  4. 04 · Claw

    Watch the ceiling

    The claw brings packages down one by one. Keep it waiting too long and the delay counts as a fault.

Sanction

Three faults.

The first two leave marks. The third is final.

04 / The shift

What awaits you.

  • 01

    Three shift paces: Light (6 min), Standard (9 min) and Intensive (12 min), set on a switch in the corridor.

  • 02

    Four machines to learn: scanner, routing, isolation and the claw.

  • 03

    Three faults. The first two leave marks. The third is final.

  • 04

    A PSX-style industrial room, CRT screens and nixie tubes, all diegetic.

  • 05

    A last package at the end of the shift. What you do with it is up to you.

  • 06

    Playable in 9 languages, with keyboard and mouse or a controller.

05 / Visuals

Inside the sorting room.

In-game captures, without the interface.

06 / Game sheet

Technical file.

Studio
Quaso Studio
Genre
First-person bureaucratic horror, PSX style
Release
October 28, 2026
Price
Free, pay what you want
Platforms
Windows · Linux planned
Length
10 to 20 min per run
Languages
9 languages
Controls
Keyboard and mouse, controller (XInput)
Tools
Unity · FMOD · Blender

Content warning: graphic mutilation, blood, death by gas, flashing lights and screen glitches.

07 / Languages and controls

Playable in 9 languages.

Languages

LanguageIn gameCode
FrenchFRANÇAISfr
EnglishENGLISHen
SpanishESPAÑOLes
Portuguese (Brazil)PORTUGUÊS (BR)pt-BR
RussianРУССКИЙru
GermanDEUTSCHde
ItalianITALIANOit
PolishPOLSKIpl
TurkishTÜRKÇEtr

Every text of the game exists in these 9 languages: menus, machine screens, report, credits. Change the language in Settings → LANGUAGE.

The signs painted in the set stay in French: the game takes place in a French administration. Everything you must read to play goes through a translated screen.

Controls

ActionKeyboard and mouseController (Xbox)
MoveWASDZQSDArrow keysLeft stick
LookMouseRight stick
Interact, pick up, put downEY
RunLeft ShiftRight trigger
Pause and settingsEscStart

WASD or ZQSD depending on the keyboard. Controls can be remapped in the Controls menu; mouse and controller sensitivity are set separately.

Credits

Made by Quaso Studio. Audio: FMOD Studio by Firelight Technologies Pty Ltd. Terminal font: “PxPlus IBM VGA 8x16” by VileR / int10h.org, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Full list in the game.

08 / Follow the project

Your station is waiting.

POSTE 03 comes out on October 28, 2026, free on itch.io, pay what you want. Join the Quaso Studio Discord to hear the moment it is out.

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