[1] The platform adventure part of the game takes place on board a spaceship called The Eidolon which is destined for a remote colony planet when things start to go wrong.

The player takes the part of Asimov, a "lowly service droid", who must attempt to save the humans stored in cryosleep.

The RPG element takes place inside a virtual computer world in which the player can hack computer terminals to combat defense computer programs via a turn-based battle system.

The game won the 9.6/10 Editor's choice gold award at VG Core[4] and scored 87% in PC Format magazine, and also won the award for 'best ending' in the PC Format 2007 game awards.

It scored 82% in PC Gamer UK magazine.