In the distant future, in the aftermath of a great war, 98% of the Earth’s plant and animal life has been wiped out. In an effort to survive, humanity has been forced to relocate underground and live out their days in the megastructure known as “The Ark”.

The structure has thousands of floors connected by elevators throughout the upper and lower floors, dividing the poor and the rich. The ultra wealthy live in relative comfort while the poor are forced to survive on next to nothing.

For the rich to stay in power and preserve themselves, they turned to bioengineering. They morphed their bodies in order to gain near-immortality from lab grown humans known as ‘the Lost Children’, who are harvested for their organs and life force.

You play as a failed lab experiment that was initially designed to serve ‘The Ark’ as a bio-computer stored inside a skeleton which would assist humanity. You have been abandoned and left to rot on the lowest floors as technology continues to improve and you were deemed obsolete and worthless.

After several decades languishing in a tormented state, you gain independent sentience and are able to emerge from your prolonged stasis, promising yourself that you will reach the surface world.

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