The steam keeps the city alive. The dark keeps the truth buried. ​In the soot-choked industrial city of Oakhaven, survival means keeping your head down and ignoring the rot. Julian, a low-tier worker surviving on the fringes, has spent his life navigating the oppressive gaze of the Ministry and the grueling shifts of the lower districts. But when an old friend smuggles a pulsing, geometric violet shard out of the deepest mining seam, the fragile peace shatters. ​It isn't glass. It’s warm. It breathes. And it just plunged the entire city's grand steam grid into absolute, freezing darkness. ​Before Julian can understand what he’s holding, a horrific, multi-limbed nightmare emerges from the shadows to claim it—leaving a trail of bodies and a chilling, grandfather-clock ticking in its wake. ​On the run through a locked-down city alongside brilliant clockwork mechanist Clara, Julian quickly discovers the creature isn't just hunting the artifact. It's hunting him. And as the violet shard bleeds its ancient power into his veins, Julian realizes the terrifying truth: the shadow he casts against the wall is no longer his own. ​To uncover the mystery of the Pre-Collapse tech, Julian must venture back into the abyss of the Deep Seam. But how do you outrun a monster when it’s already stitched into your very soul?