TheBootCamp

TheBootCamp is a third-person action-mystery game in which you play Merc J. Connor, a hacker serving a 10-year sentence of forced labour at theBootCamp Security Organization. You solve puzzles and complete missions to gain access to the organization’s security systems and find a way to escape, while fighting demons and imaginary creatures in Merc’s dreams.

Merc’s story

About two years before the game’s events, the Cyber Security Police arrested Merc and her hacker squad during an operation. The team had spent years sabotaging and infiltrating computer networks, and its members are now serving sentences in different parts of the world. TheBootCamp is equipped with advanced cyber-security hardware and software, and governments and major IT companies entrust it with protecting their networks.

Merc seeks traces of her former teammates and a way out of the organization. She also wants access to the codes for the team’s latest theft scheme: infiltrating the Hinance Digital Currency Exchange to steal approximately 11,371 bitcoins. After completing assigned tasks and earning the managers’ trust, Merc arranges a meeting with her direct supervisor, Mrs. Aurelia Andilet, in Section 9. The meeting has a significant impact on her fate.

Two worlds

The story moves between Merc’s waking life at the security organization and her dream world. In her dreams, demons and other beings torment her mind and soul in a place shaped by fear and anxiety, sometimes cold and dark, sometimes like a fiery hell. You confront these creatures with a weapon and face the fears that stand between Merc and the power to defeat the demons.

Escape and heist

The real-world story has three chapters. In the first, you solve puzzles and riddles to escape theBootCamp, find the address of Merc’s former teammates and put an escape plan into action. In the second, security agents pursue Merc as she fights her way out of the organization and into the city, using hand-to-hand combat and weapons including knives, pistols, shotguns and rifles.

In the third chapter, the police and theBootCamp agents are still after Merc. She works with old friends to carry out a heist at the Hinance Digital Currency Exchange and claim a substantial fortune. Dream creatures continue to pursue her throughout the chapters.