Scottside

Scottside is a story-driven game set in an alternate 1980s, where robots on the streets are ordinary. You move to the quiet, snow-covered town of Scottside expecting a new school, new friends and a boring life, but a discovery in the woods draws you into the town’s dark secrets. The story unfolds across five episodes over one winter.

The town’s mysteries

Each episode has its own mystery and culmination, while its answers reveal more of the larger secret that runs through the game. The characters have distinct personalities, pasts and secrets; some may become your friends, others your enemies. Your actions have consequences, with no right or wrong decisions.

Choices and challenges

What you do is played out through interactive sequences: escaping a pursuer calls for a QTE, hacking a computer requires you to do it yourself, and sneaking past a guard tests whether you can avoid being noticed. The characters and plot originated in a tabletop role-playing game, where improvisation and dice rolls shaped their personalities, choices and fates.

An alternate 1980s

The setting combines the 1980s with cyberpunk and a retrowave soundtrack. Secrets and mysteries are hidden both inside the game and beyond it.