Miranda Vigneau in Rivage

Who Miranda is (official)

Miranda Vigneau is the playable lead of Rivage. Official copy from Exnilo Studio and Raw Fury describes her as a scientist and researcher aboard the A.R.E.S. station in orbit around VESTA. After a space-time anomaly, she wakes alone. Communication with the outside has stopped. Physics on the station no longer behave. The rest of the crew has vanished.

The announcement trailer is her voice, not a third-person dossier. She repeats the same bunk and the same hour. The station resets. She does not. Journals, recordings, and personal belongings are all that remain of Dahia, Johnny, Aman, and Rafi. Her K9 unit is the only system that keeps the pieces in order across loops.

Rivage is single-player only. There is no multiplayer mode, and Miranda never fights. The tone is atmospheric mystery: empty corridors, moved objects, and messages that feel like the station is daring her to understand them. It is not an Alien Isolation-style horror chase.

Rivage official announcement trailer

What the demo room actually shows

The Steam demo was pulled after the delay because it no longer matched the ship build. Local copies still run. Saves do not carry over. Treat the following as demo-room evidence, not a finished character bible.

Miranda’s quarters are the loop start. K9 greets her by name, reports that the system has been reset, and stamps the date as May 1, 2467. Alerts say most of the crew is missing and that station power is critical. The instruction is to gather important research and move toward the evacuation bay. That is a story beat and a time-loop tutorial at once: the clock is power, not a death screen.

Look at the walls and desk before you sprint. A copy of Stardust sits with her things. In the demo path, that title is the well-documented cabin-safe code; the computer uses a separate password-reset pattern you complete from objects in the same room (the walkthrough keeps the prompt order). Both are first-hour facts, not later spoilers. A medical diploma hanging nearby is why some players call her a doctor as well as a novelist. The diploma is an environmental prop. Official store text still leads with researcher and scientist. Do not collapse those labels into a fan-made job title the files never use.

Mail on her computer includes a welcome to A.R.E.S. and ordinary to-do clutter: papers, laundry, personal boxes. A neural-device pamphlet tells you to open K9, take screenshots, and use the flashlight. None of that is combat gear. It is how Miranda, as a person who writes and studies, is expected to work under fracture conditions.

Some demo audio addresses her as Lieutenant Miranda. That rank appears in station mail, not in the trailer. Flag it as a demo inference until the ship build repeats it.

How Miranda plays, not a second protagonist

You are always Miranda. You do not swap characters. You do not recruit the missing four. Every puzzle is something she can touch: cards, batteries, keys, terminals, gravity-odd objects. When the lights die, she wakes in the same bunk with whatever K9 retained.

That design is why her personality is easy to misread. She sounds calm in trailer narration and overwhelmed in demo logs. Both can be true. Official writing frames her as someone who was sent to study VESTA and now has to study the station itself. Demo notes show a person who still has a novel on the shelf and a password she should not have reused. Use both, and keep them labeled.

Practical habits that match her kit:

• Turn on K9 in the first room. If you skip it, later loops waste time retyping codes she already knew.
• Screenshot nameplates and reset instructions instead of trusting memory. Miranda’s story is made of small text.
• Spend early loops in quarters, mail, and adjacent rooms. The loop planner is built around that first-hour shape.
• Do not treat Time Trickster as her job. The cabinet is an in-world arcade the crew mailed about, and after a blackout it is also how you bank a loop reset. Her work is research, reconstruction, and getting off A.R.E.S.

The getting started guide and controls pages cover input. This page stays on who she is.

Miranda and the missing four

Miranda’s investigation is the crew roster. Official trailer lines list Dahia, Johnny, Aman, and Rafi in one breath. Demo spaces attach those names to kitchen access cards, pharmacy batteries, a personal box, and a physicist chatting about a robot named Buzzer. She is not writing their biographies. She is collecting enough fragments to decide which door is worth a slice of remaining power.

A demo to-do that says to gather Aman’s belongings and contact family is Miranda’s note, not a confirmed obituary. Official story language is disappearance, not a declared death. Keep that distinction when you read her lists.

If you want solutions in order, use the walkthrough and the demo page. If you want the date the whole project unlocks, use the release date page. Miranda’s page is the portrait: a researcher who wakes on May 1, 2467, keeps a copy of Stardust within reach of the cabin safe, and refuses to let the station forget the people who shared it with her.