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In March 2010, after witnessing the success of early indie video games like 2008's Braid, Tom Happ started building a virtual world as a side project. Five years later, that sci-fi hacker-inspired world was released into the wild and met with the deserved critical acclaim. It was ported to various platforms, including in 2017 on the Switch where I played it on---and even received a Limited Run physical release that I'm proud to own.
The question is: what axiom? On what verge? _Axiom Verge_ plays with the idea of many alternate worlds and civilizations that, even compared to our current technological advances, are much more skilled. The Sudran nation that the protagonist Trace comes in contact with, however, has gone extinct thanks to a disease aptfully called "the pathogen", which was spread on purpose by an evil human called Athetos that discovered this Sudran race hundreds of years before you did. The Sudran people invented many technological masterpieces like the _Breach_ that acts as a portal to yest more alternate dimensions that hold potentially limitless scientific advances---but the Sudran refuse to disturb. Allured by this premise, Athetos kills everything and everyone to harness the tech for himself. Trace gets "ported in" by the Rusalki, giant bio-engineered machines that aim to stop Athetos, as this Breach he messed with also traps them in that world.
The question is: what axiom? On what verge? _Axiom Verge_ plays with the idea of many alternate worlds and civilizations that, even compared to our current technological advances, are much more skilled. The Sudran nation that the protagonist Trace comes in contact with, however, has gone extinct thanks to a disease aptfully called "the pathogen", which was spread on purpose by an evil human called Athetos that discovered this Sudran race hundreds of years before you did. The Sudran people invented many technological masterpieces like the _Breach_ that acts as a portal to even more alternate dimensions that hold potentially limitless scientific advances---but the Sudran refuse to disturb. Allured by this premise, Athetos kills everything and everyone to harness the tech for himself. Trace gets "ported in" by the Rusalki, giant bio-engineered machines that aim to stop Athetos, as this Breach he messed with also traps them in that world.
Or something like that. The plot gets confusingly complex quite fast. If you're interested in what Tom is trying to say with the story of the game, read this [The Omniverse: A Simple Example](https://www.thomashapp.com/omniverse/a-simple-example) blog post, summarized as follows:

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