Ghana · 2100
akɔben · the Akan war horn
Prologue: Homowo
No condition is permanent.
A high-speed rescue-shooter set in Accra, a century from now. Glide on one knee, hover at the top of the jump, lock three machines and answer with micro-missiles, then carry every stranger home. Your score is the people you save.
Plays in your browser · desktop Chrome or Edge (WebGPU) · mouse & keyboard or an Xbox controller · headphones on
The story
Twenty-nine years later, Accra holds Africa's road to orbit.
The Meridian carries power down from the Kente Ring to forty cities. Off Jamestown, the fallen tail of a Northern tower rusts in the Gulf of Guinea, and tonight something in it is waking. It is Homowo, the Ga festival that hoots at hunger, and the drums are back in the square.
Naa Adjeley Quaye, callsign LIGHTHOUSE, is a NADMO rescue diver turned Frame pilot. She was born the night the sky fell. She keeps count of the people she saves, never of the machines she destroys.
Fourteen people are in the square. The horn is sounding.
Who comes?
The game opens with The Seventy-Two Hours, a fully voiced, illustrated prologue: fifty-four panels on the war nobody came to, and the family it broke.
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The world
Three towers once stood on the equator. One road to the sky is left, and it is African.
Shophouses in sun-faded pastels under a skyline of solar spires. The lighthouse still stands over Jamestown, and so do the market queens. Tonight is Homowo, and the drums are back.
Africa's road to orbit, and the last one standing. Its solar ring, the Kente Ring, lights forty cities. Whoever holds it holds the light.
The tail of Halcyon's ribbon, the Northern tower that fell in 2071. For twenty-nine years it has rusted in the sea. Something in it is waking.
Dossiers
Nobody in AKOBEN is evil for its own sake. Everyone is answering the same question: when the sky falls, who comes?
NADMO rescue · Frame pilot · 29
A rescue diver from Jamestown who flies a Frame the way she swims: straight in. Funny, warm, reckless, and she will not accept help. She keeps count of the people she saves, never of the machines she destroys.
“Tell them we already came.”Adjeley, Homowo night
Kente Frame programme · her brother
Named for the dry wind that comes down from the Sahel and dims the sun over Accra. He took the prototype Frame the night the Directorate was born, and wears his mourning cloth over the armour.
“She died waiting for a vote.”Nii, 19
Unity Directorate · hero of the Long Dark
Born in a border camp, Ghanaian on one side of the wire and Malian on the other. She saved millions by not waiting for permission, and she has stopped asking. You will half agree with her.
“Fear takes nineteen days. Give me one hand on the switch, and when the sky is safe I will give it back.”The Marshal, to the Assembly, 2096
AI PRESENTER Anansi News · on air since 2026
Still on air in 2100. Between the waves she tells Accra what the night is costing, and who is watching: the Assembly in Addis Ababa, the Concord's convoys, the Meridian's engineers.
“Every number on this screen is somebody's family.”Ama, Anansi News
The kit
A rescue Frame built for the square: fast enough that nobody has to wait. Every encounter is graded from Cowrie to Ayekoo Kente, and rescues count most.
The back jets carry her along the ground. Steer with the mouse, shoot while you skate, zig-zag to shed the heat.
Hold SHIFT keyboard · Hold LB controller
Hold the jump and the jets catch her in the air. Hang there and pick your shot.
Hold SPACE keyboard · Hold A controller
Aim in the middle of a glide, a dodge or a vault and the world slows to a crawl. It cooks the jets.
RMB mid-move keyboard · LT mid-move controller
Sweep the lock circle over three machines, or eight in Drum Focus.
Hold RMB keyboard · Hold LT controller
Two per lock, from the pods on her forearm, thigh and calf. They run out: restock at the supply racks.
X keyboard · Y controller
Aim at someone sheltering and the line carries them to Kwesi's trotro. Every life counts.
E keyboard · X controller
Dodge just as the fire arrives: the world slows, you don't. Every shot crits.
Tap SHIFT keyboard · Tap LB controller
Jab, cross, hook, rising cut. Cut a bolt just as it arrives and it flies home.
F keyboard · B controller
Barrier panels catch the heavy rounds, or fence in the person under your crosshair.
Z keyboard · Hold ▼ controller
Four gun-stars hold the side you launched them from. Move round, and the machine turns its back to them.
Hold X keyboard · Hold Y controller
Burst mode, when the gold ring round your heart is full.
Q keyboard · L3 controller
When you would fall, the Frame returns three seconds. Saving people is what pays for it.
Automatic, with a full heart
Gallery
The score
An original score of seven themes. Each grows from the same five-note call on the akoben horn, answered by the talking drum: kpanlogo drums, an orchestra and a choir, a solo cello, and synths from the century in between.
ANANSI NEWS
In Accra, 2100, Anansi News never went dark, and Ama still reads the night back to the city. Between waves she widens the stakes: the Assembly in Addis Ababa, the Meridian, the convoys stopped at Gibraltar. When the night is over, she files your special report.
Ama is the AI presenter of Anansi News, Ghana's news in under a minute. Accra, 2100 is fiction. Ama's Ghana reporting is real.
The studio
“AI that survives contact with production.”
Kiseki Labs is Eddie Forson's AI studio in the United Kingdom: advisory and hands-on delivery of AI systems that make it out of the pilot and into the world. AKOBEN is its venture into games, an original world from Ghana's future, made with AI tools at every stage and a human hand on every decision.
Visit kisekilabs.com ↗