Shooter

Bedlam

Single Player

Critic · Metacritic

2.7

Users · RAWG

2014

Released

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📅 Release Info

Release DateOctober 8, 2014

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Publisher

🏷️ Game Details

Genres

ShooterAdventureIndieAction

Playable on

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About this game

Bedlam is a first-person shooter based on a novel of the same name by award winning British author Christopher Brookmyre.

In Bedlam, players take on the role of Heather Quinn (aka Athena), a programmer at medical scanning developer Neurosphere, who finds herself transported into the world of Starfire: a nineties FPS she remembers from her teen years. Searching for an explanation and a way home, she ventures beyond Starfire, to discover a vast realm of interconnected game worlds documenting the evolution of the FPS genre and of video games in general.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Satire of classic first-person shooters and game culture.
Character travels through interconnected fictional game worlds.
Campaign moves through varied genres, settings, and visual styles.
References and presentation draw on older PC shooters.

Cons

Core shooting repeats across the campaign.
Weapons and enemy encounters offer limited gunplay variety.
Game-world concepts are unevenly realized across sections.
Campaign has a short overall duration.

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