s[TOR-Y]telling: Closed Loop — Press Kit

Factsheet

Description

You are the narrator of a story no one wrote.

In s[TOR-Y]telling: Closed Loop, a large language model plays every character and improvises the entire story in response to whatever the player does. There is no script and no rails. Talk your way out of a Yakuza interrogation by insisting you're Santa Claus. Adopt a mischievous cat. Challenge a berserker barbarian to a bake-off. Whatever you throw at the cast, the AI continues — in character.

Then invite company. Stage ensembles of up to nine s[TOR-Y]s who reply to the player and to each other. Play online in Party Mode (every player their own inhabitant of the scene) or Free Mode (rival events, table votes, winner drives), with full cross-play between Windows, Linux, and Mac. Streaming? The Twitch and YouTube audience plays along with !story. Create new characters from a one-line concept. And all along, the sandbox is quietly feeding a hand-authored visual-novel campaign: your interactions drive which paths open — that's the Closed Loop.

The first genuinely fun consumer showcase for local AI — a polished "it just works" product for the thing the local-LLM community already loves doing by hand.

Free local AI. Optional Cloud AI.

Local AI runs on your compatible GPU with no usage fees and supports offline single-player.

Cloud AI is optional: choose a hosted model and use credits, with credit packs available through Steam. Cloud mode requires an internet connection.

Local AI generation stays on your device. In Cloud mode, prompts and relevant conversation context are sent to external AI providers for generation and content safety checks.

The game in five clips

Muted loops, captured in-game. Right-click any clip to save it — all footage is real gameplay: every AI line was generated by the game itself.

Features

• Free local AI and optional Cloud AI — run the included model on your compatible GPU with no usage fees, or choose a hosted model using credits. Credit packs are available through Steam.
• Multi-s[TOR-Y] ensembles — up to 9 characters sharing one scene, each with its own voice and memory.
• Online multiplayer — Party and Free modes over Steam, cross-play across Windows/Linux/Mac.
• Guests do not run the AI model — the host uses local AI or optional Cloud AI for the session.
• Live audience integration — Twitch & YouTube chat joins the story via !story.
• AI-assisted creation — the game writes full characters, and image prompts for external tools.
• The Closed Loop — sandbox interactions drive the hand-authored visual-novel campaign and the paths it opens.
• Two native languages — the AI improvises in English and Brazilian Portuguese; nothing is machine-translated.

Videos

Screenshots

Click for full resolution. Portuguese versions are in the PT-BR kit and the download bundle.

Downloads

Individual files: logo (for dark) · logo · studio logo · main capsule · header capsule · vertical capsule

System requirements — the short version

Multiplayer guests do not run the AI model. For local AI on Windows or Linux, use a compatible GPU with at least 12 GB VRAM; local AI on Mac requires compatible Apple Silicon hardware. Optional Cloud AI supports single-player and hosting without running the local model: it requires internet and credits instead of the local model's GPU memory. See the Steam system requirements for full details.

Coverage & monetization

You are welcome to publish and monetize videos, streams, and screenshots of s[TOR-Y]telling: Closed Loop on any platform — no permission needed, and this page's assets are provided for exactly that. The demo is free and has no key gate, so you can cover it today; full-game review keys are available around launch via press@curiousbiped.com or Keymailer.

The game includes content safety checks for local AI and Cloud AI. Cloud mode also uses server-side checks. Mature themes are disclosed on Steam (ClassInd 16 / Germany 18+).

About Curious Biped

Curious Biped is a solo studio from Brazil, founded by a computer-graphics and AI researcher. s[TOR-Y]telling: Closed Loop is its debut — a bet on a simple idea: that the first great consumer use of local AI isn't productivity, it's entertainment. Local AI runs on compatible player hardware with no usage fees; Cloud AI is an optional alternative using credits.