Buy Sydney and the Cicadas in: Immanentize PC key

Sydney and the Cicadas in: Immanentize is an adaptation of the story behind Immanentize, the first and only album by a Vermont punk rock band. In the early 1990s, Sydney Wickstrom (lead guitarist and vocalist), Ruby Goodbrey (bassist) and Natalia “Tally” Disston (drummer) were friends and lovers who mostly played cover songs. In the summer of 1992, they went to an abandoned citadel to explore making an original album. Only Sydney returned, and with help from Ruby’s brother Reuben, finished the album on September 21, 1993.

Inside the citadel

The game explores the three weeks the band spent in the citadel, as recounted by Sydney and through the album’s tracks. Each track has music inspired by the track being played, and you can play them in any order or skip them. The story follows love, chaos and cycles of violence across eight levels and a “B-side” epilogue, with an expected play time of over two hours.

Explore and play

You collect and use items, solve casual but challenging puzzles and minigames, and take part in conversations. You can also play chords on your guitar to change the world around you.