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Marginal act

The greate waves destroyed everything in the city, but the mysterious mechanism stopped the time in the game district. For all outside residents, the events within the segment stopped, but for the inhabitants of the district the time continues to go.

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March 27, 2018
8 years and 129 days ago
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About the Game

Marginal act takes place in the middle of a global extinction, taking down half of a huge metropolis. Time inside a small district is stopped by the action of the mechanism hidden inside the theater in the middle of the district. Our character worked as an illuminator in the theater. The player will have to solve the game situation, where all citizens are caught in a trap. People can’t leave the district, but they will not be able to live long in stoppeed time.

Features:

• Unique gaming space exploring with theater decoration system.

• Puzzles depend on the activation and deactivation of various buildings.

• An original visualization.

• Plot and art-style orientation.

• Several different endings, depending on the segment’s arguments of the game quarter.

• There are six segments for decorations on the theater’s stage. Players can put several decorations into each one of the segments.

• There are several brands of decoration that represent real buildings on the map. The stage itself represents all game space. The city building appears in the direction corresponding to the filled segment on the stage.