Incision

Incision is a fast-paced first-person shooter in which you fight to stop the spread of the Growth, a force that merges living things and technology. You cut, shoot and burn your way through its enemies and the transformed world. The game is designed to be difficult, but gives you a powerful arsenal and responsive movement; its story stays out of the way of the action, with mysteries to uncover for those who seek them.

The Growth

The Growth is an ever-consuming mass of flesh and machine, joined in an unholy symbiosis. It has reshaped familiar places into rusty, pulsating factory labyrinths that serve as the nerves and organs of a greater being. It seeks to merge all life and technology, turning people into machine-freaks designed to attack anyone who resists.

Its enemies include augmented soldiers with burst-firing energy rifles, sycophants with ricocheting sawblades, machine spider-priests called Spiderpopes that fire homing missiles, and ancient beings from beyond the world.

Weapons and combat

You have ten weapons, each with a powerful alternative firing mode. The shotgun can launch bouncing incendiary bombs, while the heavy machine gun can fire grenades. You can perform tricks with your revolver to increase its damage, and fire four incendiary rockets in a volley. The saw-spear works as a long-range slashing weapon or a close-range buzzsaw.

Combat demands skill and focus: your weapons can make short work of enemies, but they can also kill you. Fast, responsive movement helps you meet the game's challenges as you learn and adapt.

Lives and levels

Incision uses an extra-lives system, with 1-ups scattered throughout each map. If you run out of lives, the level restarts; there are no checkpoints or quicksaves, and each level must be completed in one go.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack by Frédérick Chicoine, known as iNi, includes an album's worth of atmospheric horror ambience and metal.