ROUTINE Full Chronological Timeline & Lore (1979-2025)

In case you may have missed a few things during your playthrough of ROUTINE, don't worry! This video attempts to serve as a comprehensive guide of all of the audio tapes, diaries, and entries in the terminals. That way, we can get a general idea of just what is happening to the research station. This will include, but is not limited to: The A.S.N.; John Cooper; William Davis; The Ward; The Living Quarters; The Mall/ Plaza; The Annex; Entities; and more. From what can be surmised from the tapes, general moon activity, whether it be just normal perimeter checks (in the case of John), or regular trips out to the Canal (like the Ward), crew members end up getting sick and dying. Not to mention, there are two or three different phenomenons occurring simultaneously: contractions, or "quakes", the A.S.N. malfunction, and the Entity, or alien. To sum it up, we, the player, are assumed to be the said software engineer the chief of security requested to come and look at the A.S.N. as it had been acting up. This causes the Type 05s to go haywire against the crew/faculty. The Ward's trips to the Canal cause them to become almost reverent of it, straying from their normal selves, though they do manage to keep up some recordkeeping in the meanwhile. Through it all, we manage to piece together the major bits and pieces, until we reach the Annex, and learn more about Davis, the Director.