The Last Tape: Before The Mine
Mia Jane disappeared in 1990 during a camping trip. Years later, Gabriel finds her recording while searching for a cure for her infection at the Lurmont facility. Explore two timelines, uncover the hidden truth, and survive the presence that lurks in the shadows of Black Wood.
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The Last Tape: Before The Mine
It was just a tape.
Just memories… until it wasn’t.
The Last Tape: Before The Mine is the first official chapter of a dark first-person psychological horror story, where memories are not just echoes of the past… but gateways to something that should never have been uncovered.
In 1990, Mia Jane disappeared during a camping trip in Black Wood, a forested area near the facilities of Lurmont, a company that operated under the façade of an environmentally harmless mining site in the BlackWood Forest, California. The case was never solved.
Years later, Gabriel, desperate to find a cure for an infection that is slowly consuming Mia, returns to the abandoned ruins of Lurmont. There, he discovers a video tape.
A recording that doesn’t just contain memories… but the truth someone tried to bury.
Following the events of the free Prologue available on Steam, Gabriel plays the tape, unaware that doing so awakens B-96 — a presence that does not belong entirely to the past or the present… but can move through both.
🕯️ YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Even while watching a recording, you are not safe.
B-96 moves around you in real time, lurking in the shadows of Black Wood, waiting for the exact moment to interrupt the tape and force you to react.
🏃 FIGHTING IS NOT AN OPTION
You are not a soldier.
You have no weapons.
Your only choices are to run, hide, and use the environment while exploring the mountain’s horrors and uncovering the dark secrets Lurmont left behind.
📼 TWO TIMELINES, ONE TRUTH
You will experience two intertwined stories:
Gabriel, in the present, vulnerable to B-96 while trying to uncover the origin of the infection and the true nature of the tape.
Mia Jane, in the past, through the recording made during the 1990 camping trip, where the first signs of the horror begin to surface.
Both are connected by the same tape.
Both must survive.
Your constant attention is the key to keeping them alive.
🏚️ LURMONT COMPANY
For years, Lurmont operated without oversight, conducting inhuman experiments under the excuse of mining. When something went terribly wrong, the area was abandoned and the forest reclaimed it.
But some secrets refuse to stay buried.
And the tape is proof of that.
📖 CHAPTER ONE
This game is the first entry in the main The Last Tape storyline.
For a complete narrative experience and better context, playing the free Prologue beforehand is strongly recommended.
The tape doesn’t just show the horror created by a corporation.
It makes you part of it.
