Tacoma

Tacoma is a narrative adventure game set on a high-tech space station in the year 2088. Players take on the role of an investigator sent to retrieve the station’s AI, exploring the facility to uncover what happened to its six-person crew before the events of the game.

The core mechanic centres on a digital surveillance system that has recorded three-dimensional scenes of key moments in the crew’s life aboard the station. Players can rewind, fast-forward and move freely through these recorded scenes, viewing overlapping and interwoven storylines from multiple angles to piece together the full narrative. This is combined with physical exploration of the station, including opening doors and drawers and reviewing digital communications and personal records left by the crew.

Tacoma does not include combat or traditional puzzle mechanics, focusing instead on story discovery at the player’s own pace, with an estimated playtime of two to five hours. It was developed by the creators of Gone Home and includes an optional developer audio commentary mode featuring insights from the writers, designers, programmers and artists who worked on the game.