History VideoGame / INFRA

* LastVillainStand: Made both by Hartman and [[spoiler:Walter]]: the former [[spoiler:sets up bombs at the entrance of the latter's bunker]], while [[spoiler:Walter tries to leak to the population the truth about the nuclear weapons program, but is silenced by the government before he could make anything public]].

* MultipleEndings: Interestingly, the game is full of multiple endings that not only depend on how many photos you take, but also how many optional puzzles you choose to undertake.

* ArcWords: S.N.W. appears almost everywhere in the [[spoiler:secret bunker]], but it's never spelled out. [[spoiler:It doesn't take long before the player realizes that stands for "Stalburg Nuclear Weapons".]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Corruption runs deep in Stalburg]]

'''''[[https://infragame.net/ Infra]]''''' is an atmospheric first-person adventure/exploration/puzzle game by Loiste Interactive, the first part of which was released in January 2016. The game sees the player character, Mark, sent to investigate the state of the rusting and neglected infrastructure in the fictional Baltic city of Stalburg. However this routine assignment soon turns into a fight for survival as Mark is faced with collapsing tunnels, broken machinery and a conspiracy from the past that threatens the entire city. It features a game world with very high attention to detail, and well researched infrastructure designed to resemble the real thing. Rather than relying on fantasy or science-fiction elements, or having any combat, the game's main sources of danger and puzzles are the city's own tunnels and machines.

Originally released in three parts on '''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/251110/ Steam]]''', with each subsequent part being available for free to owners of the previous parts.

A DLC expansion taking place six months after the game, ''Whiprock'', has been announced, alongside two other titles sharing the same universe - ''Open Sewer'', a WesternRPG currently in early access, taking place in Stalburg's Obenseuer slums, and ''VALTA'', a RealTimeStrategy game currently in early development, set 200 years after the events of ''INFRA''.

!! INFRA contains examples of the following tropes:

* [[spoiler: AlwaysABiggerFish]]: The reason why [[spoiler: Alex Hartman starts his personal revenge against Jeff Walter]]. [[spoiler: Walter's company was just a front for a shadow government group]].

* ArcWords: S.N.W. appears almost everywhere in the [[spoiler:secret bunker]], but it's never spelled out. [[spoiler:It doesn't take long before the player realizes that stands for Stalburg Nuclear Weapons]].
* [[spoiler:BlackSite]]: [[spoiler:The Bunker is this. Nuclear research, Uranium enrichment, an army garrison, secret cameras and wire taps on every appliance, and intruders execution]]

* DisasterDominoes: Thanks to decades of bad construction practices and corruption, all it takes is Mark trying to open one door in the Bergmann Tunnels to start a chain of collapses ultimately resulting in [[spoiler:the failure of the Two Gorges dam, the city flooding, and the potential meltdown of the city's nuclear power plant.]]

* FailsafeFailure: [[spoiler:Who designs a nuclear reactor where you have to manually insert the control rods from the bottom? Sane reactor designs have them inserted from the top. In case of a fault gravity will insert them.]]
** [[spoiler:TruthInTelevision for certain boiling water reactor designs, which have the bottom-entry control rods.]]

* LastVillainStand: Made both by Hartman and [[spoiler:Walter]]: the former [[spoiler:sets up bombs at the entrance of the latter's bunker]], while [[spoiler:Walter tries to leak to the population the truth about the nuclear weapons program, but is silenced by the government before he could make anything public.]]
* [[spoiler: LeaveNoWitnesses]]: [[spoiler: When a metro train takes the wrong track and crashes inside a secret bunker, every passenger becomes a liability. Even children. Made worse by the reports that state that everyone survived the crash]].

* NothingIsScarier: Travel alone through dark tunnels where there's no one to help you and no sign of life.
* PlotTwist: [[spoiler: Walter's tape, found inside his office along with the documents in the hidden room, shows that Walter is being manipulated by a shadow agency.]] Lampshaded by Mark. [[spoiler: Oh, and this is before you find out that there is a secret bunker built for designing nuclear weapons, and the passengers that mysteriously disappeared in a train crash decades ago were executed in said bunker]].
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Some rooms are covered in a lot of weird graffiti [[spoiler:probably due to the psychedelic mushrooms growing in Stalberg.]]
* RunningGag: [[spoiler: "An elevator that didn't fall down?"]]
* SceneryPorn: Despite running in the ageing Source engine and being produced by a small indie studio, the game features many gorgeous and stunning environments.
** Special mention to the full 360 degree panoramic view of Stalburg afforded from the top of the blast furnace.
* SchmuckBait: An unexploded WWII bomb, an opportunity to throw a brick at a cracked dam...
* [[spoiler: SecretGovernmentWarehouse]]: [[spoiler:there are two of those in the Bunker:]]
** [[spoiler: The first one stores the bodies of the executed civilians.]]
** [[spoiler: The second one is used for uranium enrichment.]]
* SuperDrowningSkills: Walking into deep water spells death. Even if it's not electrified or terrifyingly filthy.

** Mark entering a building early on and discovering [[spoiler:a body under a tarpaulin.]]
** Then, later on, [[spoiler:opening a door in the bunker and discovering dozens of occupied bodybags.]]
** Finding [[spoiler:Xeander Berg's hideout and discovering that the mushrooms are not only psychedelic, but cause a [[ViralTransformation virus that eventually causes sufferers to dissolve into the aforementioned mushrooms]].]]