A 3D open-world traversal-action game about staying in motion through a city that's being "reclaimed" out from under the people who survived it.
Seven years after a supplement company poisoned its own city as a publicity stunt, the survivors have built a life in the wreckage — and a corporation called Cleanline has decided that life is a PR problem worth cleaning up. You play Mike Aracter, and you're not here to be reclaimed.
Why this exists, and what it's actually trying to prove.
Halcyon Shores, its districts, and who's actually fighting for it.
Mike, Node, Socket and Vance.
The traversal fantasy, the design pillars, and a moment of what it actually feels like to play.
Behind the scenes as LIVEWIRE actually gets built.
LIVEWIRE is a game, four prelude novels, a webcomic and an album. Some of it you can have today.
Skate punk, pop punk and some stranger corners. Listen on Spotify or SoundCloud.
Abajo, Socket's song, and Probably Fine, Mike's. Watch them.
Six Weird Ass Months. Mike, Day 0, 06:50. Read it free.
Voicemail. The outbreak from Node's side. Read it free.
7 October 2026
This site now covers the whole of LIVEWIRE, not just the game: the prelude novels, the webcomic, the album and its music videos, plus a lot more detail on the moves, the weapons and the city.
7 October 2026
Socket's song got a lot more detail: rusty scrap in nine shapes, tunnel arches with rivets, bricks, pipes and junction boxes rolling past, furnished bays and proper doors. The video is built in code, so every beat, camera whip and lyric is timed to the track.
6 October 2026
It started as a lyric video with a flat 2D Socket in his tunnels. He came out again in version two so the lyrics could carry it, and version three added a camera that whips round every two bars, beat bursts, swinging bulbs, embers and smoke.