G String

G String is a story-focused first-person shooter with light environmental puzzles and a long single-player campaign. You play as Myo Hyori, a gifted Korean teenager in a troubled future, exploring a vast metropolis and other locations as the world implodes and humanity's history approaches its conclusion. The campaign takes 10 to 15 hours and spans several distinct places, from the slums of Greater Chinatown to Low Orbit Earth and beyond.

Myo and her biosuit

Myo wears a Standard Issue Biosuit from Bortz Bioengineering. It tracks her health, ammunition and armor condition, and automatically manages her lights, sprinting and breathing in open air and underwater. Neuro-enhancers, air filters and light sources recharge through movement and/or sunlight, but you need supplies to restore health, ammunition and armor. The suit is resilient, though prolonged exposure to toxins can cause fatal failure. Its night vision is initially disabled, presumably because of damage from earlier lab experiments.

Myo has telekinetic and pyrokinetic abilities from the start, which remain available through most of the game. Combat is spaced out and can be harsh, but you can avoid some fights with humans and take multiple routes. The game responds to Myo's behavior: the less aggressive she is, the fewer enemies she is likely to encounter later. She never faces explicit mature situations.

Explore and survive

You explore detailed maps with alternate routes and hidden secrets, solve environmental puzzles of varying complexity, and face hazards including acid rain, storms, toxic exposure, crumbling infrastructure and pervasive smog. The pace increases considerably later in the game. A minimal HUD and few hints accompany an old-school approach with little hand-holding; brief cutscenes show events that would otherwise be impossible to present from the player's perspective.

The story follows the troubled future of a spacefaring, fragmented humanity and Myo's effort to escape the powers governing Earth and reach beyond it for answers. The game's retro glitch-art aesthetic draws on science-fiction films from the late 1970s through the early to mid-1990s, with exceptions including 1969's Space Odyssey and The Matrix. Its world has a restrained, realistic design shaped around feasibility and mass production.