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The Long Reach:
The Long Reach is an intricate adventure, where you solve puzzles, run, and hide. The story takes place in Baervox, fictional American town. The scientific institute designs a revolutionary system of accelerated knowledge transferring. As it usually happens, everything went wrong. Technology went out of control. As an aftermath, Institute, and the whole town turned into a real nightmare, and the experiment participants grew into... well, we cannot tell you that for now, because we hate spoilers!:)
Features
Magical realism. We’re going for a usual and mundane exposition parts that are trashed and twisted and as the story unfolds.
Your enemies aren’t faceless zombies or possessed puppets. They are humans whose lives and stories matter and we make sure the player knows that.
Solo mode for adventure lovers. Control Steward, the junior researcher at the scientific institute. He is an ordinary person who will have to untangle the story, save the world and survive.
Unforgettable narrative. It is a thrill story, flavored with sci-fi idea, psychological context, and skeptical view on the progress and human actions.
The Long Reach is the almost 100% classic adventure game but dressed up with a little haunting element.
More than fifty locations.
For about twenty main and background characters.
More than sixty items, which you will have to collect and apply.
More than 12 000 words in dialogs and script.
Mad folks will haunt you. There are few of them, but they won't let you relax.
Handmade pixel art, created pixel by pixel from scratch.
Original atmospheric music. Our composer's indeed music maniac. He brings strange things into the studio and turns them into the pieces of music. We don't understand what he's doing, but his work can't be overestimated.
Lots of game platforms: PC, macOS, Xbox, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
Calm down. This is all normal. Well, it’s a new normal. There was a malfunction that we can’t fix yet, but with your help I can make symptoms bearable. We’re all in the same boat here and should help each other.
I’m Shelly, a lead scientist in General Education research facility. The job title is longer, but it’s not important. Here’s what I know so far, though.
The experience-sharing program that we were studying went haywire. Maybe it’s that black box, maybe something else. The main symptom for you is that your nightmares and dreams no longer require sleeping to manifest. These hallucinations are all in your subconscious. It turns out that given enough time with it, we go insane. But we can fix that.
Talk To Everyone.
If you find someone that doesn’t look sane - talk to them. Chances are their condition is manageable and they can help you.
Run! As Soon As You See Danger, Run!
But if they attack you - run. None of us can tackle an adrenaline filled psycho. Remember that you might look to them like a seven-headed cat monster.
Be Smart, Solve Puzzles, Use Items.
Try to collect whatever you stumble across. It might help down the line, if you apply it right. Don’t lose hope if it doesn’t. Think.
