Snowflake Tattoo

Snowflake Tattoo is a stark story set years before NPPD RUSH. You play as both the merciless sentient plasma sniper from that game and a mysterious prototype human/bike hybrid she has hacked. Together, you explore and plunder a maze-like frozen storage ship disabled by a huge solar storm.

The abstraction

Your reward is a chance to trade human beings through a trans-dimensional trading post called the abstraction, in the hope of finding your missing sister. The sleeping people you find can be sold for the abstraction’s experiments, left to be cut up and turned into other bike hybrids, or saved. Your choices determine your high score: you can pursue the money from trafficking or save as many people as possible.

Survival and combat

The game combines permadeath with arena-shooter gameplay and late-1970s and early-1980s minimalism. You craft health and sentient plasma from biological waste, including collagen, enamel, unknown and “dollsteak”—the material you came to steal. Its “Ghett-ro” crafting draws on 1970s minimalism.

Music

The music is a collaboration between Dylan Barry and F.tyler, combining experimental noise, modal ambient and electro.