It’s less interested in telling a complete story from beginning to end and is more about conveying a tone through environmental details, NPC chatter, and music. You see, The Final Station isn’t so much a story as it is a mood.

If you think that description of the game’s lore is too vague, that’s because it’s exactly how the game presents it. Set several hundred years after a vaguely alluded to catastrophe called ‘The First Visitation’, the world is now overrun by zombies, causing humans to get quarantined into cramped colonies with the army seemingly having enforced marshall law on the whole world as they build something or something called The Guardian that might help humankind in the face of a possible or inevitable Second Visitation. Developed by indie studio Do My best and published by tinyBuild games (the people behind Hello Neighbor and the absolutely excellent Party Hard), The Final Station was a short, dark, and wonderful action game with some survival elements. The Final Station original released on September 2016 - seemingly out of nowhere - and absolutely blew my mind.

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