Impostor Factory is the third game in the To the Moon series from the author of indie projects from Freebird Games studio. The action takes place in the same universe, but you will have to play as a previously unknown character.
The main storyline
A young man named Quincy receives an unexpected message. He is invited to attend a party at an old Gothic mansion. After thinking about it, the young man agrees. And it does not matter that the message from the owners looks strange. The road on the way to the destination turns into an abandoned trail, and the mansion itself looks like a set for the creepiest horror movie. Quincy is incredibly curious, so he immediately goes inside.
But he discovers that the owners of the mansion have been murdered. Fearing that he will become a suspect, Quincy tries to destroy the evidence that proves he was in the mansion.
But when he pops into the bathroom to wash his hands, he unexpectedly travels back in time. What happened? Who is the killer, and can he still be in the building? Quincy must investigate this. But each step makes the events even more confusing.
Gameplay and game world
The game is incredibly easy to control. All the player has to do is move the character in the right direction and interact with some objects from time to time. Quincy has to travel through other people’s memories and collect the pieces of memory to make a whole picture out of a series of disparate events.
There are no traditional puzzles that make you think long and hard about the solution. Instead, the puzzle is the story itself, twisting into a dizzying spiral and leaving more questions than answers.
Just when the player seems to understand where the narrative is headed, a significant chunk of the story suddenly drops out of the overall plot and is rendered meaningless. The storyline is abruptly set on a new course, and new questions are added to the unanswered.
At first, the game doesn’t impress at all. It is an indie project with low-resolution graphics, minimalistic visuals, and scanty settings of possible parameters. But all this can be forgiven for the sake of the plot. The game is more like a graphic novel or a movie, and to watch it, you only need to keep your hands on the keyboard.
Old friends
Impostor Factory at first makes the player believe that it is a separate and self-contained game that can be passed without any knowledge of the other projects in the series. That it tells a completely independent story.
But then two doctor-partners from other Freebird Games games show up. Neil Watts and Eva Rosalyn live in a world of the not-too-distant future and run a rather unconventional business. They own an agency, ‘your-wish-comes-true,’ that helps people relive their memories.
Unfortunately, human memory is too finely organized to interfere with it during a person’s lifetime. That is why doctors fulfill only the customer’s dying wishes. But absolutely any wish, from working as a school teacher to flying into space. At the same time, the memories of the patient are replaced, and the patient dies with the certainty that this is how he has lived his whole life.
The charismatic comic duo of Neal and Eva appears only for a few minutes, but they perfectly complement the silent Quincy. Impostor Factory has an easy knack for evoking vivid emotions and touching a nerve with the player. At different stages of the story, it can make you laugh. It can surprise you, frighten you, or even make you cry in the final scene.
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