STASIS: BONE TOTEM

About STASIS: BONE TOTEM

STASIS: BONE TOTEM is the second game in The Brotherhood's STASIS anthology, a new story with new characters after the 2015 original. It came out on PC in May 2023, and Feardemic brought it to PlayStation, Xbox and Switch in March 2024. The music is by Mark Morgan, known for the early Fallout games.

Mac and Charlie are a married couple who make their living scouring the ocean for salvage. When they find an abandoned oil rig in the Pacific, they go aboard and then down, into an underwater base the Cayne Corporation would rather nobody saw. With them is Moses, their trusty Super-Toy robot.

It plays in the classic way: an isometric view of detailed pre-rendered rooms, where you click to explore, read logs and terminals, combine items and solve intricate machine puzzles. You explore with all three, Mac, Charlie and Moses, switching between them as you go.

The horror is in what the base holds: embalmed bodies, fungus rotting through flesh, notes from the people who worked there and an ancient secret at the bottom of the sea. It is a slow, reading-heavy adventure rather than a chase. It suits fans of SOMA's underwater dread and of the old isometric horror adventures, and players who like their puzzles hard.

How to play STASIS: BONE TOTEM

1. Buy it on Steam, GOG, the Epic Games Store, the PlayStation Store, the Xbox store or the Nintendo eShop.
2. Click to move your character and examine everything in each isometric room.
3. Pick up items and combine them in your inventory to solve problems.
4. Switch between Mac, Charlie and Moses as the puzzles need.
5. Read logs and terminals for codes and clues to the puzzles.

Tips

• Read every terminal and personal log; many puzzle answers are in them.
• When one character is stuck, try the same spot with another.
• Look at item descriptions closely; they often hint at what to combine.

Questions