Space piracy is a real problem in the future, but luckily there's a new and exciting loss prevention system to meet the needs of cautious space travelers.
That's where you come in. In Skin Deep, you're Nina Pasadena, a former assassin turned insurance commando, part of the deluxe insurance package for corporate starships.
You're frozen and stuck in a drawer on the ship, to be defrosted and put into action if pirates show up and try to kidnap the crew.
Skin Deep is an immersive FPS from Blendo Games, maker of Quadrilateral Cowboy and Gravity Bone. Basically, it's like Deus Ex or Dishonored, but you can set banana peel traps for enemies to slip on and throw pepper in people's faces to make them sneeze so much they can't fight back.
Also, you work for a company run by talking cats. (It's the future.) «It's very light and very goofy,» said Brendan Chung, creative director of Blendo Games, in the Annapurna Interactive Showcase today. «But it treats this light and goofy stuff very sincerely and very earnestly.» «It's like Die Hard but with more comedy,» said Blendo Games programmer Sanjay Madhav.