Roman Sands RE:Build

Roman Sands RE:Build is a narrative adventure developed by the studio responsible for the IGF Award-winning Paratopic. It combines two separate storylines that gradually overlap, one set in a luxury tropical resort and the other in a post-apocalyptic research facility. The game mixes several genres, including adventure, visual novel, puzzle solving, survival simulation and atmospheric horror.

In the resort storyline, the player washes up on a beach and is treated by the guests as a member of staff who has been neglecting their duties. Play involves ranking up and unlocking equipment in order to keep pace with a constant stream of guest demands, all while the sun is only days away from destroying the world, a fact the guests appear indifferent to. Beneath this routine, the player can investigate the resort’s hidden secrets and solve puzzles in an effort to escape.

In the facility storyline, the player is one of the last surviving people and acts as caretaker of a run-down zoological research station. Their only company is a dead cow and a voice on the radio that seems oddly familiar. A parasite is spreading through the station, and the player must decide whether to eliminate it and protect the station’s research, even if doing so puts their own survival at risk. The game raises questions about how, and whether, the two settings are connected, with both narratives shifting and mutating as the story develops.