Completed Backbone.
It’s quite short, just 4 hours, and since there are almost no puzzles, it’s mostly just story.
We follow the science lead. Get into the lab. The Artifact is kind of a black goo that is able to create hybrids. Also, this is a postapocalyptic world where humans are apparently long extinct. The Artifact gets into us. That’s… unexpected.
From here, game turns into Weird.
There’s a fantastic scene where we walk through a crowd during a festival.
We meet our friend, Anatoly, the taxi driver. And that thing kills him.
We lay low with the homeless people. But the mafia finds us eventually and captures us, to experiment on the Artifact. There is a bunch of pointless inner dialogues, after which we escape. And… suddenly, that’s it. We are told that the mafia boss plans a revolution, our partner decided to work for her, and our hero either dies beyond the Wall or mutates beyond recognition.
Well, that’s a depressing turn of events.
