The Signal From Tölva

A game featuring this much metal must have an umlaut

Crossing the surface of a strange planet, with only a few robots and the strange (sadly unshootable) manta-birds that wheel in the sky for company, our minds can wander a bit. Was that a robed figure that flashed into existence on top of those ruins? Are we being watched? Better get the scanner out and… oh, too late. It’s gone. Still, there are some bandits over there to shoot. Best forget about it. Just imagining things.

But you are being watched, and the ghosts and strange beings of the planet Tölva (look it up in the nearest Icelandic dictionary) add to the sense that you’re part of a bigger world. That and the comprehensive PDF of lore and background that’s supplied in lieu of a manual, of course, which delivers a great deal of information about the game’s setting that would have been tedious to read about in-game.