In a dusty New Mexico town five years from now, William Vest dodges betrayal after delivering alien bone marrow bait meant to end him. He escapes with a cryptid-creation machine and blunt companions, solving text adventure puzzles to gather animal DNA. Players mix it into beasts like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and fur-bearing trout.
Vest trains and levels these creatures by battling other animals, boosting their attributes and ferocity in hybrid-RPG style. He builds an army of pseudoscience monsters to crush enemies as the cryptozookeeper. This adventure appeals to fans of puzzle-solving and creature-collection gameplay on PC.
Five years into the future, within a dusty town in New Mexico, William Vest has been tasked with delivering a package of alien bone marrow. Everything goes quickly awry as Vest learns his employer has used the marrow as bait, to kill him.
Escaping death, Vest finds himself on the run with only two things that can save him - his complete lack of proper scientific methodology, and a machine that can create creatures of pseudoscience, or cryptids. Along with a few gruff and sarcastic companions, Vest completes text adventure game puzzles and scenes in order to find valuable animal DNA that he can then combine into creatures like Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the fur-bearing trout.
In addition to creating these creatures, the player can train and level them up throughout the game by fighting other animals, thus increasing their attributes and ferocity. (At this point, the game takes more of a hybrid-RPG form.) Once armed with a proper army of fantastical creatures, the player can use them to defeat his enemies as the cryptozookeeper.
