That's you on the petri dish.
- This summer, you will see a different world...
Project Remedium is a 2017 Science-Fiction indie First-Person Shooter developed by Atomic Jelly... and very likely the tiniest FPS to ever exist.
Using a premise loosely inspired by the old 1980s cartoon, Once Upon a Time... Life (which the game's developers admits is one of their childhood cartoons), Project Remedium is set within the human body. When a young girl is infected by an unknown viral strain that no known medication can cure, a series of experimental nanobots are injected into the girl's bloodstream to combat the diesease, serving various functions from healing to restoring metabolism and eliminating viral infections.
Inevitably, you're one of the many security-class nanobots (simply known in-game as "Nano"), tasked with defending the child's body from virus, bacteria, and infections, while travelling between various internal systems to investigate the infection's source.
Advised Action: Elimination with the Remedium Sprayer...
- And the Adventure Continues: The game ends with Nano defeating the Damned One and curing the young, infected girl, and the nanobots decides to remain in their patient's body to hunt down other traces of viral infections to prevent the germs from returning.
- Arm Cannon: Nano, and basically every combat-class Nanobot (as well as infected nanobots converted by the virus) have weapons built in their arms by default. Though some infected machines have abilities to fire Eye Beams instead.
- Blackout Basement: Levels set inside the girl's intestines and digestational tracts are often pitch-black, and vision is limited to a small circle illuminated by Nano's built-in lighting systems.
- Blob Monster: The pus-based enemies are depicted as gigantic blob creatures.
- Building Swing: Nano's Remedium Launcher can fire nanofibres that latches on high ledges, platforms and the surrounding environment, allowing it to swing all over the place.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Sort of, the player controls a nanobot named "Nano".
- Delicate and Sickly: An unnamed little girl is the Patient Zero of an unknown viral strain in the opening prologue. To save the child's life, a few hundred nanobots, including the player protagonist Nano, is injected into her body to save her.
- "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: The whole game is set in a little girl's body, filled with germs and viral infections, and it's up to Nano and his fellow nanobots to clean them up.
- Festering Fungus: One of the viral strain's side-effects is creating the growth of mold that rapidly spreads through an infected victim's internal organs, but luckily in the game it's at a dormant stage - Nano have various levels where he needs to eliminate all traces of mold by destroying it's source (which stops the spread and causing all the area's mold to die off).
- Giant Mook: Fattster, fecal-shaped gigantic sludge bacteria in the stomach and colon area who towers over Nanobots. They tank multiple hits before going down, but they're rather slow because of their size.
- Guns Akimbo: Nano is armed with the Energy Cannon and Remedium Sprayer, one on each arm, which it uses in tandem to battle the viruses.
- Meat Moss: The stages are already flesh-coated, due to the game being set inside a human body, but the stomach level takes it even further where it's walls are disgustingly coated in green viral gunk. Nano's objective in said level is to heal the stomach gland to remove said growth, and of course he needs to battle viruses along the way.
- Monstrous Germs: From Nano's point-of-view, anyway, since the player is controlling a microscopic nanobot and battling gigantic bacteria monsters.
- Nanomachines: Nano himself, and a few thousand of his fellow nanobots injected into the child's bloodstream in the opening prologue.
- Notice This: The game tends to throw markers so Nano doesn't lost himself. Objectives and exits for instance are marked by white hexagons, while onscreen enemies are often silohoutted in red or orange.
- Organic Technology: In the later stages, Nano encounters defeated nanobots, which the virus somehow captured and infects turning them to nano-cyborgs who uses their leftover weapons to attack Nano.
- Reforged into a Minion: The fates of defeated and destroyed nanobots, assimilated with virus cells and turning into half-nanobot, half-organic mooks.
- Stationary Boss: The ultimate viral infection, called The Damned One, a gigantic virus creature tethered to the stomach ceiling which Nano must defeat all by himself in the final stage because no other nanobot made it into the Damned One's core. It can spam all kind of attacks from it's raised position and only vulnerable by shooting it's nodes. Destroy it and the game ends.
