Tacoma

Tacoma is a narrative adventure set aboard a high-tech space station in 2088. You investigate the disappearance of its six-person crew and the events that led to a disaster, while the Venturis Corporation wants its AI back. The game focuses on exploring and uncovering the story rather than combat or puzzles; it takes around 2 to 5 hours to complete, depending on how much you investigate.

The crew and their story

The six crewmembers lived and worked together on Tacoma, forming relationships and experiencing love, loss and crisis. As an interactive investigator, you learn what happened to them and what shaped them through fully voiced, animated interactive AR scenes. Their story explores trust, fear and resolve in the face of disaster.

Reconstructing events

Tacoma’s digital surveillance system recorded pivotal moments in the crew’s lives. In each section of the station, digital representations of crewmembers play out parallel story threads that diverge, come together and split apart again. You can rewind and fast-forward through the recordings, move around within them and examine events from different angles to piece together the narrative.

Explore the station

You investigate Tacoma both physically and digitally. Unlock doors and drawers to find objects, notes and artifacts, and examine the crew’s digital communications and personal thoughts. The game’s records and physical spaces contain details about the crew’s experiences, which you can explore at your own pace.

Life in 2088

The station is part of a fictional vision of humanity’s expansion into low-Earth orbit and beyond. Exploring Tacoma reveals this imagined future alongside the crew’s story.

Audio commentary

The game includes over two hours of commentary from the writers, designers, programmers, artists and others who worked on it. Commentary covers Tacoma’s fictional world, the development process and personal stories from the people who made the game.