Close to the Sun Download PC

Gameplay

Close to the Sun is a horror adventure game played from a first-person perspective. During the span of 10 chapters, the gameplay consists of picking up keys to unlock doors, solving puzzles, and finding collectibles, all while getting an insight into the lives on the Helios. There are chase sequences, which happen at various points across the campaign. They require the players to press button prompts to jump over obstacles. While walking around, it can be noticed that the halls are filled with illuminated shadows, who appear to reenact scenes from the past.

Setting

The game takes place in an alternative reality at the beginning of the 20th century, in a technological war between Nikola Tesla, who was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist, best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system in reality, and Thomas Edison, who was an American inventor and businessman, described as America's greatest inventor in reality.

While the tale starts on a small boat, the player spends the grand majority of time aboard the Helios, a gigantic retro styled passenger ship called after the Hellenistic Sun God of the same name, it functions as a "haven for the greatest scientific minds". The Helios is the world's largest ship, it majorly consists of multiple private quarters and several laboratories, furthermore it maintains an internal railway system, gardens, a theatre, a hospital, a cinema and many other facilities, including a Tesla Tower on its uppermost deck. The ship is owned and administered by the fictional company "Wardenclyffe", which is likely headed by Tesla – the company's name is inspired on that of the real Tesla Tower, officially called "Wardenclyffe Tower".