What is Elirium?

Elirium is a first person puzzle game Josh built during his final semester at the University of Connecticut. It serves as his capstone project for his Bachelors degree. Elirium takes place in a fictional fantasy world, where the player assumes the role of a hero without any special powers, who must come to terms with the society they’ve been presented with, in which children are sent off into the wilderness on their own to keep monsters at bay.

This project is a critique of the modern world, in which we collectively accept improper practices as part of our reality. It asks us to question our beliefs, and consider our world as if we were an outsider looking in, rather than someone simply persisting in space.