The Corruption

The Corruption is a first-person game in which you fight corrupted digital zombies in the crumbling halls of a dying digital world. Explore surreal, sometimes meandering maps, uncover messages from surviving processes, solve puzzles and platforming challenges, and work toward one of four possible endings. A playthrough takes about 4–5 hours, with more to find if you search for every secret.

A dying digital world

Generations of updates have corrupted the world’s inhabitants and structures. Its spaces draw on backrooms, vaporwave and De Chirico, while messages left by the few processes still surviving in the data reveal what remains. The story also raises the question of whether the digital sanctuary can be escaped.

Fight the corrupted

You face fast-moving zealots and tanky partisans using traps, well-timed cascading explosions and the Process Termination Grenade Launcher, which can tear through corrupted structures. At times, the system takes the launcher away, leaving you to rely on your wits to escape. The journey also includes bouts of intense combat and occasional glitched Beethoven.