

Bedlam is a first-person shooter based on a novel of the same name by award winning British author Christopher Brookmyre. In Bedlam, players take on the role of Heather Quinn (aka Athena), a programmer at medical scanning developer Neurosphere, who finds herself transported into the world of Starfire: a nineties FPS she remembers from her teen years. Searching for an explanation and a way home, she ventures beyond Starfire, to discover a vast realm of interconnected game worlds documenting the evolution of the FPS genre and of video games in general.
ShooterAdventureIndieActionScience fictionretrosteambased on - bookpre-release public testingPlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
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Nostalgic, epic, cool and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
- Developer
- RedBedlam
- Publisher
- KISS ltd
- Released
- October 8, 2014
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Side view
- Engine
- Unity 4
IGDB rating 5.1/10 from 9 ratings.
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