It’s incredibly difficult to design a wholly unique sci-fi world. With hundreds of different interpretations spanning years and YEARS in media, it’s rare to make a sci-fi world that doesn't prompt someone to comment: ‘It looks like [insert blockbuster sci-fi movie/game here]’. However, I think Bionic Bay overcomes this feat, managing to set its sci-fi story worlds away from what we've seen before.
First and foremost, Bionic Bay is a striking game to look at. Huge metal machines fused with mass organic structures. Damp tendrils worm their way between mechanisms, it's almost impossible to distinguish roots from wires and cables. This facility is also set entirely underground. Light littered with dust and spores filters down from the surface giving everything an unnatural hazy glow. This subterranean, biomechanical world has been carefully considered, and the result is a deliciously eerie atmosphere.
