Close to the Sun is a first-person horror game set aboard the Helios, a massive research vessel built by Nikola Tesla in an alternate 1897. You play as journalist Rose Archer, searching for your sister Ada among the ship's abandoned laboratories and ornate halls. The Helios was designed as an isolated scientific utopia, but you arrive to find it under quarantine, its corridors empty and reeking of decay. The game focuses on exploration and environmental storytelling as you piece together what went wrong. Expect physics-based puzzles tied to Tesla's inventions and chase sequences where you'll need to run and hide rather than fight. The alternate-history setting leans into gilded-age excess—gold statues, grand architecture—contrasted with body horror aftermath. It's story-driven with minimal combat, suiting players who want narrative tension over action.
