The player has likewise been completely ignorant of its existence due to the Unbroken First-Person Perspective. 'Could Have Avoided This!' Plot: Towards the end of the game you find that your grandfather left a sticky note on your face with helpful information, which Man only removes after being told about it.All of this is explained to you in one paragraph. Oh and Grandfather, a brilliant space engineer and AI developer, discovered this and worked to subvert it, even posthumously taking control of his coffinbot to fight Mother personally. One of their experiments resulted in the creation of the rogue AI Mother Station, who conspired with the Green Universe terrorist group to bring down the liner 'Unnamed' to allow her to subvert the coffinbots aboard and kickstart the war, but the plan was bungled resulting in the mess the Man finds himself in at the start of the game. The Conspiracy: The Breathedge corporation, exploiting its position as the premier space funeral service provider in human space, secretly experimented on and developed an army of corpse-powered 'coffinbots' and scattered them all over the galaxy under the pretense of offering dignified funerals.Breaking the Fourth Wall: One of the ways the game has you reduce radiation in order to access more areas is to go to the game's setting menu and enable 'reduced radiation' (an option that only appears when you're told to do so) a slide-show in-universe contains instructions to do so.For vehicles, they lose durability when damaged but can be repaired with the Repair Tool. The exception is the Infinite Handy Scrapper, which has infinite uses as per the name even though its durability is listed as 999. For tools and weapons, a point of durability is lost each time the item is used successfully. Breakable Weapons: All of your tools, weapons, and vehicles have a set durability that is reduced through use or damage, and will break once that durability is depleted.Borrowed Biometric Bypass: A smuggler's eye can be used to access smuggler's caches in certain spots.Big Bad: Mother Station, a Hive Mind formed from hundreds of Breathedge spacesuits, is primarily responsible for the attack that caused the 'Unnamed' to crash in the first place, and is the final enemy that must be defeated to beat the game.Antagonist Title: The Breathedge corporation is ultimately responsible for all the death and destruction of the game, and launches a full-out war to take over human space in the epilogue.It even contains a virus to shut down the evil AI. The All-Solving Hammer: The immortal chicken is used as the solution to a startling array of things, ranging from grounding electrical currents to plugging leaks to (due to an extremely fortunate resemblance) convincing a military robot that it is a general.The highlight has to be the military Gatekeeper confusing a chicken in camo pattern paint for a high-ranking general!

Is a Crapshoot: With the exception of your spacesuit AI, who remains loyal and helpful throughout the game despite shouting the occasional corporate platitude, every other AI is not particularly impressive. Achievements in Ignorance: The player character somehow manages to start a fire over the course of solving a 3x3 jigsaw puzzle.For example, one of the very first things you do in the game is try to plug a leak in your shuttle with the Immortal Chicken - only to be informed that leaks are best plugged with things that don't have holes at each end.Īt the 2023 Summer of Gaming event a sequal was announced.īreathedge contains examples of the following tropes: However, while Subnautica played into the horror of being isolated on an alien planet, Breathedge takes a far more darkly humorous and occasionally absurd tone. With only his family heirloom, the Immortal Chicken, and a smart-mouthed corporate AI built into his spacesuit for company, the Man must scavenge, craft, explore, acknowledge innumerable shout-outs, bury his grandfather once and for all, get to the bottom of an Ancient Conspiracy and maybe chase after the mysterious 'Babe' who keeps sending him seductive messages not-so-subtly trying to get him killed.īreathedge takes noticeable inspiration from the earlier survival game Subnautica the core gameplay loop of scavenge > craft > explore > scavenge is highly similar. The game puts the player in the role of the Man, Sole Survivor of a deep-space crash of the funerary liner 'Unnamed' operated by the Breathedge corporation while attempting to bury his recently-deceased grandfather. It was released on Feburary 25, 2021, after an extended period in early access. Breathedge is a survival game developed by indie game devs RedRuins Softworks and published by HypeTrain Digital.

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