A game where you're in a populated city where a riot has broken out and all the vehicles of the confused people trying to escape has caused heavy traffic jams so nobody can really go anywhere anymore. At the same time, the riot is still happening, so people are throwing area-of-effect molotovs around and looting buildings and cars, causing general chaos on a wide scale and making things inconvenient. The game starts with a short series of images showing that you were at home doing chores and watching the news when you saw the riots and the bridges out of the city jammed with traffic, and you decided you have to find a way out and ran to your car, as most other people did.

You start on your driveway, standing next to your car. The camera is a bird's-eye view, and you can walk/run omnidirectionally with the camera centered on you, enter vehicles and drive them if possible similar to running, vault over/under obstacles, and attempt to "use" - talking to a person, wedging a door open, using a radio, and so on.

The goal is to drive/walk/run/climb/crawl around the city, avoiding roadblocks and traffic jams and dodging the chaos, trying to find a way out of the city. You will probably have to abandon your car at some point, but you can hopefully find another one if luck smiles on you - not that you'll be able to get far much of the time in a vehicle.

The hazards and paths are randomly generated, but there will always be at least two or three ways out of the city. This can change over time, but there will always be at least two at any time, even if you get blocked off on one side of the city. Avoid the choking smoke, rioting populace, crowd control teams, and veering traffic/news vans to find your freedom from the carnage, or revel in it and throw a few molotovs at riot squads yourself.

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Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_City_Gridlock.jpg

"Fly away / fly away

From the torch of blame

They hunt you / The Lucifer's Angel..."

-The Rasmus, "Lucifer's Angel"

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A runaway/statless action RPG game where you play as a fallen angel, once flawless. The angel was betrayed and cast down from heaven out of spite of their beauty, intelligence, and wisdom, becoming the second angel in many years to fall. Stripped of powers and grace, the angel landed hard in the World of Mortals.

The World had always been a superstitious place, and society was still in its emergent phases. Angels and gods were exalted and revered for their might, but also feared terribly for the same reasons. It was because of this fear that several cults and organisations rose to power among the mainly devout populace, the ambitious few who would seek to destroy the gods and tear down into ruin everything they stand for.

The most dangerous of these cults, the Blackswan, were there many years ago when the first angel fell - the sister of the second angel. Instead of killing her, they imprisoned her instead. She was one of the strongest magic-user angels in the realm, betrayed out of fear from lesser angels, and even on earth her magic is strong. The cultists siphon the magical energies into themselves, using their angel as a source for power and dominance. These same cultists now pursue you, having heard through one of their ears the tale a group of adventurers told in the tavern of a second angel falling to the World. You also face threats from any civilian who finds out your identity, as the fear of the gods may drive them to attempt to lynch or exile you now that you are a weakened Mortal.

Your own magic was never as good as your angel-sister's, and without your powers your physical strength is greatly diminished, leaving you a little above an ordinary human. Your sole advantage is weak offensive and restorative magic, still faintly usable outside your realm. Your tasks: first to evade capture and gather your bearings, find ways to conceal your identity as an angel - robes, travel by night.. or even the irreversible process of removing your wings by Mortal means, if you're earthbound long enough for it to be necessary. The end goal is to find a way to locate the Blackswan headquarters where your angel-sister is being kept, then infiltrate or directly attack and rescue the angel before they find and capture you. The odds will be against you almost every step of the way. You may recruit Mortals you encounter along the way through friendship, a show of magic, gold, intimidation, or any other means, but the hearts of humans are easily tempted and it will be difficult to know who to trust.

The last thing is that depending on how you are on earth, you may become corrupted. There are many means to achieve your goal, and just as you might stay pure and compassionate, you might end up intimidating and bribing to get your way and become a terrifying leader of your own cult. You might rescue the other angel, but whether you'll be ascending with them back up to your realm is another matter...

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Background: http://bpsola.deviantart.com/art/The-Fallen-Angel-...