Puzzles vary from manipulating switches and dials, to searching for certain frequencies to broadcast in Elster's radio implant.

In the fashion of Resident Evil, another survival horror series, there are safe rooms that allow the player to save progress and store their items for future use.

[6] The player character, Elster, is a ship technician Replika unit[7] that awakens in the wreck of her crashed scout shuttle and sets out to look for the human pilot of her ship, encountering strange events of possibly supernatural origin in an underground mining facility.

[5][14] Additional aesthetic influence comes from more traditional artwork, incorporating The Shore of Oblivion by Eugen Bracht as well as Arnold Böcklin's Isle of the Dead into the game.

[2][5] Filmic works by Stanley Kubrick, Hideaki Anno and David Lynch helped shape the narrative's themes of identity and memory in the game.

[8] GameSpot noted that the aiming was "unreliable", while Nintendo Life instead critiqued that the boss fights of the game were not well suited to the combat system.