Through The Looking Glass plunges players into a heart-stopping survival thriller where an ordinary man fights to stay alive after a biological agent wipes out 90% of his coastal city’s population. With the island locked down by external forces and no hope of rescue, your only ally is Alice—a neighbor whose secrets may be the key to survival or your final undoing. Scavenge, strategize, and navigate a world where trust is as scarce as resources.
Dynamic Survival Systems
Every choice impacts your chances of enduring the quarantine’s horrors, blending visceral combat with psychological tension.
1. Resource Scarcity & Crafting: Scavenge decaying supermarkets, abandoned clinics, and flooded neighborhoods for essentials like antibiotics and weapon parts. Craft makeshift tools—welded pipes become spears, hospital IV bags filter contaminated water—but hoard too much, and Alice’s trust erodes
2. Environmental Hazards: Navigate toxin-clouded streets with gas masks (durability depletes with use), evade patrol drones in pitch-black sewers, and outrun "The Weepers"—infected victims drawn to sound. Leave traps like broken glass to slow pursuers, but blood trails attract worse threats
3. Sanity Mechanics: Witnessing atrocities fills a "Desperation Gauge." Let it peak, and hallucinations blur reality—phantom gunfire lures you into ambushes. Calm Alice during her panic attacks to stabilize your own psyche, or risk permanent paranoia
Alice: Complex Alliance System
Your neighbor is both lifeline and wildcard—her loyalty shifts based on your actions, unlocking divergent story paths.
1. Moral Temptations: Alice offers shortcuts: steal a military jeep’s fuel, but leave a family to die; betray refugees for extra rations. Each selfish act boosts her "Dark Influence," warping her into a ruthless pragmatist who sabotages your escape
2. Shared Trauma Bonds: Soothe her night terrors with collected mementos (e.g., a child’s music box), and she reveals map shortcuts or crafting blueprints. Ignore her despair, and she might barter your location to raiders for "protection"
3. Hidden Agendas: Uncover Alice’s past through environmental clues—a lab badge in her attic hints at ties to the outbreak. Confront her, and she may confess truths... or plant evidence framing you as the bio-weapon’s architect
Open-World Lockdown Exploration
The quarantined city evolves dynamically, where districts decay or transform based on your decisions.
1. Procedural Threats: Military checkpoints collapse into zombie hordes if ignored; flooded zones rise with each rainfall, drowning loot caches. Prioritize restoring power to hospitals, and clinics become safe havens; abandon them, and they mutate into cultist strongholds
2. Faction Rivalries: Aid the "D.O.D. Remnants" to access weapon stockpiles, but invite aggression from the "S.L.A.Y." anarchists. Forge alliances cautiously—one faction’s "ally" is another’s assassination target[^10].
3. Verticality & Secrets: Scale high-rises via fire escapes to snipe enemies, then descend into buried subway tunnels. Decode graffiti tags to find stashes, or misread them and trigger explosives. The city rewards curiosity... and punishes recklessness
Reactive Narrative & Endings
Four endings hinge on balancing Alice’s humanity, your moral compromises, and the city’s fate.
1. Trust Thresholds: Max "Alice’s Loyalty" by sharing scarce antidotes, and she sacrifices herself to halt the pathogen’s spread. Let "Dark Influence" dominate, and she usurps the quarantine, ruling a dystopian empire
2. City-State Outcomes: Rally survivors to rebuild a democratic enclave, flee alone on a stolen helicopter (abandoning thousands), or ignite the bio-lab, vaporizing the island to erase evidence. Each finale features an epilogue detailing the outbreak’s global aftermath
3. New Game+ Corruption: Replay with "Echoes of Alice"—phantom whispers misguide your path, loot spawns rotted, and flashbacks reveal how your first run’s choices doomed other survivors
