Bedlam

Bedlam is a first-person shooter based on the novel of the same name by Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre. You play Heather Quinn, a scientist known in games as Athena, who becomes trapped inside Starfire, the violent sci-fi game she played as a teenager. After volunteering to test brain-scanning technology at her employer, the corporate giant Neurosphere, she emerges from the scanner in the game world with no explanation, backup or apparent way out.

A game within a game

Bedlam looks back at online gaming of the 1980s and 1990s, pairing that setting with modern graphics and gaming features. The story begins in Starfire, but explores other game genres from a first-person perspective.

Heather Quinn

Heather is an overworked, underpaid scientist developing medical technology for Neurosphere. She volunteers for the brain scan one rainy Monday morning to get out of the office for a few hours, but finds herself caught in a virtual world where the danger and fear feel real. The game explores the possibility of a video-game world as either an escape from ordinary life or a prison with no way back.