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Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Very Positive (2,833) - 87% of the 2,833 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
1 Aug, 2017
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Fullbright

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French ✔ ✔
German ✔ ✔
Spanish - Spain ✔ ✔
Japanese ✔ ✔
Korean ✔ ✔
Portuguese - Brazil ✔ ✔
Russian ✔ ✔
Italian ✔ ✔
Simplified Chinese ✔ ✔
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Includes 12 Steam Achievements
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Awards

Finalist: Excellence in Narrative, Independent Games Festival

Finalist: Best Narrative, BAFTA Awards

Best Setting, PC Gamer Game of the Year Awards

 

Reviews

“I got so caught up in the story, I found myself gasping out loud and putting my hands over my face. That’s how much I liked it.”
95 – Paste Magazine

“A mystery that grabs hold of you the instant your magnetic boots clamp to the station and never lets go... Immensely rewarding.”
84 – PC Gamer

“A story that's both gripping and emotional... The little details packed into the space station are touches of the sublime.”
90 – Destructoid

Commentary Mode Now Available!

We are proud to announce that Tacoma has been updated to include over TWO HOURS of audio commentary from the developers who helped bring the game to life! Just start a new game in Commentary Mode, or enable Commentary in the Gameplay options. Tacoma Station is now populated with dozens of Commentary icons, providing insight from the programmers, artists, writers, designers and more who made Tacoma happen. Thanks, and happy exploring!

About This Game

The Venturis Corporation wants their AI back. That’s where you come in.





Tacoma is a narrative adventure set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088. As you go about your mission, you’ll explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

At the heart of Tacoma is the facility’s digital surveillance system, which has captured 3D recordings of pivotal moments in the crew’s life on the station. As you explore, echoes of these captured moments surround you. You’ll use your ability to rewind, fast-forward, and move through the physical space of these complex, interwoven scenes to examine events from every angle, reconstructing the multi-layered narrative as you explore.

Tacoma is the next game from the creators of Gone Home, and carries on that tradition of detailed, immersive, and powerful storytelling, while pulling players deeper into the narrative than ever before.

Now featuring over two hours of Developer Audio Commentary! Just start a new game with Commentary enabled, or toggle it on in the Gameplay options.

Features:



A Richly Layered Story Experience:
Six crewmembers lived and worked on space station Tacoma, forming relationships, experiencing love and loss, and facing crisis together. Discover not just what happened to these people, but what makes them who they are, through your role as an interactive investigator. The story is told through a series of fully voiced and animated interactive AR scenes, immersing you in the events on Tacoma.

A Groundbreaking Multi-Path Story System:
In each section of the station, you are surrounded by digital representations of crewmembers following their own parallel story threads that diverge, recombine, and split off again. Rewind, fast-forward, and move through these scenes’ chronologies as they swirl around you. Your interactive tools allow you to discover the tightly-knotted narrative from every angle, and in every detail.

A Deeply Interactive Gameworld:
Explore Tacoma Station both physically and digitally. Unlock doors and drawers to find meaningful objects, notes, and physical artifacts, while simultaneously exploring extensive records of the crew’s digital communications and personal thoughts. Every facet of the crew’s experience on Tacoma is part of your investigation.

A Vision of the Future:
Experience life in the year 2088. Discover a rich fictional universe that depicts humanity’s expansion into low-Earth orbit and beyond. A deeply-imagined speculative vision of the near future from the award-winning story team behind Gone Home and BioShock 2: Minerva’s Den.

A Compact Narrative Game:
Tacoma is estimated to take around 2 to 5 hours to complete. How deep you dig and how much detail you find is up to you. Tacoma is a non-combat, non-puzzle-focused game. The details of the story and gameworld are there for you to discover at your own pace.

Developer Commentary Mode!
Tacoma now includes over two hours of Audio Commentary from the writers, designers, programmers, artists and more who worked to bring the world of Tacoma to life. Learn secrets about Tacoma's fictional world, insight into the game development process, and personal stories from the people behind the game.

System Requirements

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    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7 or higher, 64-bit
    • Processor: 1.9ghz Intel i5-equivalent processor or higher
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Onboard or dedicated graphics accelerator with 1GB+ of video RAM
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 11 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7 or higher, 64-bit
    • Processor: 2.9ghz Intel i7-equivalent processor or higher
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Dedicated graphics accelerator with 2GB+ of dedicated video RAM
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 11 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Runs best installed on a SSD
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: OS X 10.14 or higher
    • Processor: 1.9ghz processor or higher
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Onboard or dedicated graphics accelerator with 1GB+ of video RAM
    • Storage: 11 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Most recent version of OS X
    • Processor: 2.9ghz Intel i7-equivalent processor or higher
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Dedicated graphics accelerator with 2GB+ of dedicated video RAM
    • Storage: 11 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Runs best installed on a SSD
    Minimum:
    • OS: 64-bit OS
    • Processor: 1.6ghz Intel i5-equivalent processor or higher
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Onboard or dedicated graphics accelerator with 1GB+ of video RAM
    • Storage: 11 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 16.04
    • Processor: 2.9ghz Intel i7-equivalent processor or higher
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Dedicated graphics accelerator with 2GB+ of dedicated video RAM
    • Storage: 11 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Runs best installed on a SSD
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