About Dysconnections

The vast desert is the playground of an adventurous gas jockey who uses road litters to create interesting machines. You play as Alain, in a vintage look 3D sci-fi adventure. Interact with passengers, listen to their stories, dig out the history of old-time vengeances and loves, find out what’s happening in the city, without leaving your desert cab.

For days and nights, wander in the desert with your dog and look for an abandoned object. You may discover strange phenomena, people and buildings, which should not be there. Shall you trust your own mind? Is the loneliness is making you imagine things? Or perhaps you are getting prepared to take part in the biggest event that can happen to a gas jockey.

The Story

Alain means a pebble. And at the beginning, Alain Gromski looks like a small pebble in the vast expanse of desert. He has selective mutism, and left the city many years ago to reduce his relations with other people and pass time with his solitary habits: wandering in the nature, enjoying the silence and rare moments of music, gathering passengers’ junks and turning them into apparently useless machines. He is an autodidact inventor.

He spends most of his days in his gas station, living in a small cabin there. Many passengers are old time truck drivers, and he doesn’t need to say more than “that’s 10 dollars”; but recently, the road is attracting more drivers, and many of them are telling interesting stories. Alain was a sci-fi fan since childhood, and some tales remind him of his old favorites. Considering the boring, backwater city he left decades ago, he sees these changes an improvement.

Even his family and friends sometimes share the news and ask him to come around and see the new facilities by himself to believe them. But he doesn’t need to travel long, as signs of these changes appear in this distant road: New passengers driving dark cars with the UNCO letters are becoming regular customers. They all wear dark suits, wear strange googles and it seems they can communicate through their cars.

All these things make Alain uneasy, and his curious, inventive mind leads him to discover things and share them with his best friend. Even her optimism is gradually fading away.

But other people look happy. They are driving elegant cars, dress smartly and speak of things he can’t understand. But the children are getting more silent, and this not a point for Alain to miss.

The small pebble loves to bask on the warm sands of the desert, but the storm will hit him soon.