In The Fall you play an item of clothing. Surprisingly, with this being PC gaming and all, you're not a hat, a monocle or a different hat. You're a futuristic combat suit, or at least you're the artificial intelligence that has been loaded on-board the suit. When the suit's occupant loses consciousness under mysterious circumstances, you must all of your simulated smarts to find safety and possibly discover a few home truths about your protocols and programming along the way. The first episode of the side-scrolling atmospheric point and click platformer is out on May 30th and a new trailer lays down some ground rules. Listening to music and wearing clothes is cause for suspicion.

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The game is due to be released in three separate acts and is the result of a successful Kickstarter. I'm hoping it's turned out more like The Secret of Metroid Island than The CaveDig and will be taking a look before launch. The first act weighs in around three hours and will be available for Windows, Mac and Linux.