The game is set in a near-future, sci-fi world where you play as Harry Herman, an employee of Delta Laboratories, specializing in interdimensional travel research. What started as a project intended to advance humanity goes terribly wrong. Throughout the game, you’ll be solving physics-based puzzles using a powerful energy-manipulating weapon, traveling through different dimensions and surreal universes to uncover the dark secrets behind the project—and your role in it.
Gameplay Overview
Puzzle-Solving and Strategy: Using the Portable Energy Manipulator, you’ll interact with the game’s physics to solve a variety of puzzles and outsmart enemies. The environment is highly interactive, allowing you to pick up, carry, and manipulate many objects like computer terminals, boxes, and even small items like mugs.
Energy Manipulation: The device you carry can absorb different types of energy from the environment, which alters its properties. For example, absorbing heat from fire or radiators lets you melt glass, while taking in light allows you to blind security cameras. To power generators, you can harness toxic radiation found in the labs, and eventually, you’ll encounter quantum entanglement energy, a mysterious force that allows you to open rifts between worlds.
Combat and Strategy
While the game emphasizes puzzle-solving, you’ll also encounter various creatures from different dimensions. Instead of directly defeating enemies, your Portable Energy Manipulator allows you to outsmart them. You can freeze some enemies in place using force field energy, or distract others that are sensitive to light by shooting a beam into the distance. As you progress, the puzzles and enemies become more complex, requiring you to combine multiple energy types and think creatively to survive.
Storyline and Exploration
The game begins in one of Delta Labs’ off-world research facilities, located in an unknown dimension that feels like a collapsing, disordered lab. Early on, you reconnect with your old colleagues, Eugene and Alex, who help guide you on a journey through various dimensions. As you progress, you’ll learn about different physics interactions and encounter strange creatures, all while trying to make your way back home.
As the story unfolds, you’ll uncover hidden truths about the project, your past, and the questionable morality behind your research. The narrative is non-linear, with choices that have a lasting impact. Your decisions will influence whether you uncover the full truth, attempt to escape or align yourself with different sides. Ultimately, you’ll face the question: will you “break the Principle” or stay within its boundaries? The outcome depends entirely on your choices.
The game combines deep exploration, puzzle-solving, and strategic combat, all within an intriguing sci-fi storyline filled with mysteries and choices that matter.
Game Features
- Physics-based puzzles: Solve a variety of puzzles that require understanding and manipulating physics.
- Innovative mechanics: Utilize a unique energy-manipulating weapon to interact with the environment and solve challenges.
- Distinctive setting: The game blends sci-fi with surreal and esoteric elements, taking place largely in strange alien dimensions.
- Rich story and lore: Every location and character has its own backstory, revealed through notes, environmental details, and conversations.
- Multiple endings: Your choices shape the outcome, leading to various possible endings.
Genres/Tags: Action, Shooter, First-person, 3D
