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Posted: 30 Jul 2021 02:00 PM PDT

What are the most important moments in your life? Lost At Sea is a game about life and death, about coming to terms with your past and about family. Set on a beautiful island, this game will force you to look past your fears and take stock of your life through imaginative puzzles and a relatable story.

Lost At Sea tells the story of Anna, who, in the autumn of her life, has come to be alone. To live her new future, she will first have to take stock of her past. Construct her memories through objects and puzzles on a strange island, and face the question we all face eventually, "Did I do it right?"

In Lost At Sea, we experience moments in the life of Anna, moments that we all recognize, moments that make us all wonder how life suddenly took a hold of us, instead of the other way around. This is a perspective we don't see often in games; a woman, a mother, who is in the second half of her life, but still very much a part of the community and actively involved in planning her future.

The age bracket of 50-70 is very much overlooked in games, especially in women; often it seems that there are either young women, forty-something mothers, or grandmas aged 80+. We're happy that with Lost At Sea we are able to pay attention to another age/life group.

Lost At Sea is a narrative-driven game that combines linear and non-linear storytelling, as well as metaphorical spaces and puzzles to hopefully allow players to join Anna on her journey.

There is the environmental storytelling; the island that serves as the backdrop of the gaming experience is a symbolic space, letting players physically explore the larger emotions of the main character and confront her fears. The final layer of the storytelling are the thoughts, feelings, and the voice of the main character in the here and now, carrying players through the 'main plotline' if you will.

The game's puzzles are designed to point towards specific moments in a human's life, showing the broad spectrum of human life from cradle to grave. At the same time, meaningful objects attached to these puzzles connect Anna's story to these moments and her life is told to us in miniature memories via a voice over and storybook illustrations.

Lost At Sea invites you to explore the island’s scenic landscapes and dreamlike spaces, uncover its hidden secrets and solve its riddles, as you dive deeper and deeper into Anna’s mind and soul. We hope you find yourself in Anna’s journey, because her fears, struggles and triumphs are all too human.

Enter Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone in Chernobylite September 7

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:00 PM PDT

Are you ready to face your fears? The Zone will open for stalkers in Chernobylite on September 7. Take your best gear—humans aren't the only threat lurking in the dark here…

Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG from developers The Farm 51. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Igor Khymynyuk, a former physicist of the Chernobyl power plant, has returned to what is now the Exclusion Zone to find his fiancée who disappeared 30 years ago on the fateful day of the nuclear disaster. She haunts him in his dreams and as long as there's even the slimmest hope that she's alive, Igor must face the horrors of the Zone himself. The very ones that might have already consumed Tatyana. Will you discover the dark secrets of Chernobyl? Will you be able to face the truth you'll find there?

Tatyana Amelieva, Igor's missing fiancée, called Igor to Chernobyl in his dreams. She seems to be both a guide and a nemesis. Her intentions? Unknown. In the Zone it's hard to even tell if she's really there or just an echo of a memory.

Chernobylite is a thrilling story of conspiracy, love, and obsession. As events unfold you will discover not if you can face your fears but if you can survive them.

There are several layers to the survival aspect of the game. You'll need to build your base and set out on dangerous missions to find resources in the Exclusion Zone, such as food, weapons, medicine, and scrap materials. Your mission isn't something you can accomplish alone, so you'll need to find companions and send them out too. Your companions will be crucial to the success of your mission so you'll have to manage your resources well to make sure you all survive. But nothing in the Zone is easy. Remember: everyone has a hidden agenda.

Exploring the Zone will take its toll on you. When radiation levels are too high, they'll damage your health. Facing hostile soldiers and creatures from another dimension will affect your psyche. Your ammunition can run out and sometimes you won't be able to get back to your base to catch your breath, so you'll have to master the art of survival in the field. In a tough situation you can either create simple tools from the available materials or work with abandoned ones you find. You'll have to do whatever it takes just to stay alive.

The survival elements in Chernobylite were all designed to match the game's setting, Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone. For example, in the game you can gather scrap metal and chemical tanks, which devs, The Farm 51, saw on their trips to Chernobyl.

These down-to-earth elements of survival blend with the game's paranormal aspect. Dangerous and mysterious creatures enter the Zone from another dimension. To make exploration a bit easier, you'll have a special tool that can open portals for quicker travel or to travel back in time and change the choices you made. But the more you use this power, the more creatures will appear, so there's always a price to pay.

Developers, The Farm 51, traveled to Chernobyl quite often to gather data for the creation of its in-game version. "We tried to recreate the most interesting places in the Exclusion Zone around the Chernobyl Power Plant using photogrammetry to achieve the most accurate results," said Michał Mierzejewski from The Farm 51. "The fact that we managed to scan it will, in a way, save the Zone."

When the team reached the higher levels of Reactor 5, they could see practically the whole Exclusion Zone. "We said 'Imagine, how cool would it be if a player could see this view every day in-game and choose where to go next from this lookout and even see their influence on the game world'," said Artur Fojcik, the Game Director.

Characteristic places such as Cafe Pripyat, the Chernobyl Power Plant, and the now destroyed Emerald Summer Camp have been ingrained in the game forever.

The real Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, although it has its own secrets, is actually safe. The Zone's recreation in Chernobylite however will take you on a thrilling adventure but will force you to face your fears. Knowing this, will you still enter the Zone? See you there on September 7. We hope you survive.

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