I’ve made it what I think is a reasonable fraction of the way through the game and then hit a dead end. I’m currently carrying a mop, a theater ticket, a geiger counter, a token, a dull metal key, a ballpoint pen, a car key and three light bulbs.
The most obvious obstacles are the locked doors in the funicular maintenance tunnel and the catacombs. I also haven’t found anything useful to do in the casino or the discotheque. I had a look at the hints which seem to imply that I should have found a magazine somewhere by this point, but I don’t have any such thing. Have I failed to notice or examine something important?
That did it, I’d read that section of the hints once I realised I was stuck but failed to realise that it was referring to two separate objects. But now I’m stuck again; I’ve made it into Engineering but I don’t have what I need. According to the hints, I was supposed to have encountered someone called Svetlana but I don’t know where to find her.
Ah, no, she was there. Having messed with the transmitter (which I didn’t realise was portable at first), I was keen to get back to the casino to see if anything had changed, and so in my haste I didn’t see the text about the Aston Martin.
I finished the game, it was fun! My favourite moments were the car chase and pushing Vlacz off the mountain.
Minor bug report: the response to PUT BULB IN PLUG in the dome was misleading, since it just tells you that the plug can’t have things put into it rather than saying that you need to be more specific about which city’s plug to put it in.
glad you liked the game! it’s been very quiet and i’m just glad someone is playing it. it’s probably too long for a comp such as this one but, as i went along, the network of puzzles kept getting larger and there was no way to remove one thing without tossing out a bunch of other stuff.
minor bug is addressed. will be in a post-comp release.
the car chase is my personal favorite part as well. i’m willing to bet it’s the first time there’s been a “real time” car chase in an IF game.