While many mainstream stealth games have you deciphering hard to follow plots, Subverses will have you interpret an entirely different language in order to succeed.

Set in a dystopian future, where the world is ruled entirely by a few mega corporations, a devastating flu epidemic is crippling society. One corporation, known as Omnisource, is holding the key to humanity’s survival a secret. It’s up to you to infiltrate Omnisource and gather evidence to use as leverage against the corrupt organisation in the hopes of obtaining information on the cure.

As a spy in a foreign land, the player must learn a target language (chosen by the player) to solve puzzles and discover secrets through dialogue with helpful (or suspicious) NPCs. These puzzles present sentences and phrases that are split into smaller components, and must be rearranged in the correct sequence before progressing. The game currently supports English, French, German, and Spanish, but the developers are promising more languages if the game reaches its Kickstarter stretch goals.

If 2013’s App of the year, Duolingo, has proven anything, it’s that humans have unquenchable thirst for affordable and user-friendly language acquisition. Couple this phenomenon with a genre that has found success on the mobile platform with titles like Stealth Inc and République and it becomes obvious that the developer behind Subverses knows who its target audience is.

Subverses has less than three days left for its Kickstarter campaign and only 2% remaining of its funding goal. There are some pretty sweet rewards at higher tiers and some very interesting stretch goal promises over at the Kickstarter page. Check it out here, before it’s too late.

Writer:
Brodie Fogg

References:
    - République
    - Stealth Inc

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