A MAZE. / Berlin 2023

12th International Games and Playful Media Festival

Bomber Looks Down

BLD Playthrough

by Evgeni Puzankov (Russian Federation)

Genre: Story Game

Bomber Looks Down lets you take control of an AI on board of a giant bomber in a senseless and cruel environment.

It is a visual novel-like game with the main focus on storytelling. You participate in conversation from the perspective of Ia and choose the responses. However, since Ia is an AI, your responses are limited and guided by her programming. The narrative is the main star and the gameplay serves it.

The intention was to make a game that might be appealing to both the art crowd and normal people who might not engage with a war game unless it has very masculine vibes. That is planes, rockets, military, this kind of stuff. As the game progresses the subversive nature takes center stage and hopefully changes people’s opinion on the Russian military, war in Ukraine, and blind hierarchy.

Platform: PC