![]() ![]() "Concepts," Emily spoke up suddenly behind me, making me resume walking, "Especially pervasive concepts, like myths, superstitions or household-recognition brand names, have power in the minds of people. Was it me or did the girl look a bit like Jesse? I paused, watching the skull-faced instructor on the screen regale a couple of terrified kids with the dangers of bringing Coca-Cola cans inside the Oldest House. It was showing some creepy puppet cartoon to a couple of tired guards chewing extremely bland looking sandwiches that came out of blank white packaging. So thorough was the retro feel of the building that I was honestly shocked when I saw a kitchenette with a VHS combo TV like one I had in my house as a kid due to how out of place it seemed with everything else in here. There is a zone where the stabilization failed and part of an office got fused into hallways and walls of a different floor. For all we know, they're all on separate planes of reality or overlap inside the same pocket one. "So don't try to imagine how the floors are supposed to match up to each other. The FBC has ways of forcing it to retain that shape so we don't lose people or materiel, but it's a process that requires regular upkeep," Jesse explained as we walked past a circle of electric tape marking a spot on an otherwise innocuous floor, some sort of emitter dishes located around the circle, pointing at the center. ![]() "The building is pretty non-Euclidean and constantly changes shape. All around me, letters flew, lay, piled, spilled out of welded-shut doors and even bulged out of a deformed elevator. "You still came to this Earth from a different one, which is more cosmic knowledge than we had before you fell into our laps," she beamed at me in a somewhat infectious way as she showed me we finally reached the end of the staircase. "What if the Motel did pick me up from this Earth? What if the world that I spent the last six years on after leaving my original one was this same one? Your weird equipment really threw me off, but if that's a purely FBC thing, the shocking revelation isn't as shocking anymore." ![]() "I'm sorry?" Jesse seemed confused but the way Emily's face lit up again, I knew she got the idea. That actually made me wonder as we descended yet another flight of stairs. 1950s transistor radios, reel-to-reel tape recorders, pneumatic mail tubes that defied identification. The highest tech on display was the 1970s era computer terminals and vending machines, with the rest of the tech base being a smattering of things from earlier in the twentieth century. Coming to Nintendo Switch, Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X on August 12th 2021įind yourself lost in a mind-bending commute from your corporate office job to your home and family with The Plane Effect.After being subjected to the remainder of the questionnaire and allowed to finally leave the glass cube, I was led down a never ending staircase in a mail room that looked like someone inverted a brutalist skyscraper and filled it with floating letters like some sort of wizarding school book, I was given a quick guided tour of what my two Women in Black-attired guides called "The Executive Sector".Īs advertised, it was a never-ending office building, the only windows being those that looked out into enclosed atriums (with very tasteful plant decorations which I didn't even realize were half-consumed by an alien moss until it was pointed out to me) or conference rooms.4K resolution capabilities as well as Ray Tracing enabled for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.Solve puzzles and navigate complex environments, or activate ‘Assisted Mode’ for guidance.Immerse yourself in a twisted reality as you attempt to comprehend and navigate the inexplicable phenomena around you.Play through the first 30 minutes of a mysterious and cinematic journey through a mind-bending, dystopian world right now on Steam.We are excited to announce that The Plane Effect is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam on August 12th 2021, with a free-to-play prologue out right now on Steam. New Prologue Showing The First 30-Minutes of Solo’s Journey Out Now on Steam ![]()
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