

Indies Rich Metson and Pontus Schonberg describe their debut game Off Grid on their blog as an “adventure satire,” a cross between a political thriller and a dark comedy, combined with traditional third-person stealth gameplay and set in an open world environment. Players assume an antihero role as an “everyman pencil pusher, whose dull job is redacting data for the city’s prying and spying coca-cola sponsored government. Having worked on the original system, his guilt erupts when he sees a co-worker abusing the systems power, and a series of dark events unfold.”



Having snapped, the character will stealth, scavenge, and craft to re-purpose the items in the world to create a ‘mesh network’ and help free the city. “Your aim is to help build cells of resistance, free musicians, activists, thinkers, and hackers and create a network of freedom for the people to regain their anonymity, what they do from there, is up to them.”

Off Grid is making its public debut at the Eurogamer Expo at the NFTS Games stand tomorrow and is scheduled to release in 2014 on Windows, Mac, Linux and possibly other platforms. For now, we have this lovely new poster from the game’s graphic designer, Marcella Fiori.

