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Compression

A massive underground warehouse has turned into a hostile organism. Every part of it is hunting you. To survive in this action 2D platformer, follow three main rules: run, shoot, think! And find the one behind it all.

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Hiemscat
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About the Game

You're just an ordinary engineer in the year 2075. You arrive at night on a call to an underground warehouse and find yourself in a horrible nightmare. The AI that runs the warehouse loses control of it. The warehouse becomes a huge, hostile organism. Walls, floor, ceiling, everything comes to life and starts hunting you. Apart from the living walls, you must evade killer robots, mines, chemical bombs, time accelerators and decelerators, toxic fog, and other deadly traps.

All you have is a work exosuit, a rat-hunting rifle, and a bit of luck. But your goal isn't just to escape the warehouse. You must uncover what powerful force has turned an ordinary storage facility into a hostile predator. And you must not let it break free.
But the warehouse will do everything ingeniously to stop you.

All levels are handcrafted and meticulously designed down to the smallest details. A full set of thrilling hardships awaits you. But you will always have a chance to survive. No game overs. A critical exosuit malfunction, and you’re instantly transported to the last checkpoint.

Interesting features.

  • Some enemies will be almost invisible. But you will also have this skill at times.

  • To uncover the truth, you’ll have to dive into the minds of robots. So you will be able to switch bodies with them for a while.

  • A simple and straightforward path to your goal. No mandatory backtracking.

  • You'll have to solve puzzles from time to time, but they won’t be difficult—just at the level of cat intuition.

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