What really sells the narrative here though are the characters that you share it with.
The dystopian themes are strong here and surface everywhere you look, from the gruesome extents that gene engineering reaches to the differences in food machines throughout the game. There’s so much going on here that you’re sure to get sucked into the story by something, and once you do it all starts to fit together in a masterful puzzle that may have more relevance to our present society than we’d like to admit. From humble beginnings trying to puzzle a way out of a locked room and investigating a murder scene, you’ll be taken on a whirlwind tour through the wars of the old world, the AI dominance of the city, heartbreaking personal tragedy, blackmail plots, conspiratorial uprisings, and terrorist attacks. I know I’m talking about the plot in terribly vague terms but for a game that’s around six hours long, there is an incredible amount of narrative twists and turns crammed in there. Both are brought together in a very clever way as the plots involving them expand to encompass Charlie’s tragic past and hand in what the city has become, eventually touching on the underlying conflict between the rigid governance of the present and the chaos that preceded it.
Their tales dig deep from the introductory scenes of poverty and squalor on Latha’s side and cold authority on Charlie’s. Set in the advanced, AI-directed city of Newton, Technobabylon follows the stories of Latha Sesame, a Trance-addicted (think super VR internet) young girl from the slums and Charlie Regis, an investigator for the previously-mentioned AI’s management bureau. But what makes this title truly remarkable is how that is the very least of its narrative accomplishments. Technobabylon has no problem clearing both of these hurdles, establishing a thoroughly wired world of networked decadence built on the ashes of the old order.
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After all, it’s easy to envision a blasted wasteland or an ocean of shimmering glass towers but not so easy to envision how to get there. There are so many competing visions of the future in media that it makes the fully-realized ones stand out all the more.
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