They’re surrounded by the ruins of technology they barely understand. Our triumphant conscious machines have become little more than barely functional blobs held aloft with cobbled together parts. In the intervening time, some catastrophe has befallen society and broken the chain of forward progress. Unfortunately, to me, it happened some uncountable number of years before the events in Unmechanical. In my attempt to seek meaning in the game’s events or, at the very least, fit the setting and circumstances into some nice neat box that reflects 21st century America’s social, political, and technological values, I am imagining a future where humans have transferred their all consciousness into machines. It’s a dark and scary place filled with unknowable hazards, beings with completely opaque motivations, and it exists in some technological stone age that I find profoundly disturbing. I don’t want to live in whatever nightmare universe Unmechanical takes place in.
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