Imposter Factory

Developer(s)	Freebird Games
Publisher(s)	Freebird Games
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Engine	RPG Maker XP
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Genre(s)	Adventure
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Cabinet
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Imposter Factory is an adventure game developed by Freebird Games. It takes place within the canon of Sigmund's video game franchise, To the Moon and Finding Paradise.

Gameplay

Similar to its previous installments, the game was designed with the RPG Maker XP engine and does not feature role-playing elements.

Plot

Quincy Reynard has apparently been invited to a party at a remote mansion. While there, he observes anomalies that frighten and confuse him. He sees multiples of another houseguest, Lynri Watts, and repeatedly stumbles upon the murdered Doctors Alise Yu and Warden Haynes, the mansion's owners, before seeing them alive later. He also discovers that washing his hands in a toilet apparently allows him to time travel. The situation worsens and he eventually finds himself in an empty mansion, filled only with numerous corpses of Yu and Haynes. Inexplicably, he also begins to replicate.

Lynri stumbles onto the Quincy copies and reveals that they are in a computer simulation of the real Lynri's memories, and that 'Quincy' is merely extrapolated from Lynri's memories of the real Quincy. She displays to him all of her memories, from childhood to old age. Lynri was born with a life-threatening birth defect that impacts her daily. She fears that any day may be her last, so she works as hard as possible to 'leave an impact on the world'. As a neuroscience student, she runs into the real-world Quincy at university. After some time, the two date, and both graduate.

Lynri's research paper catches the attention of the Yu-Haynes Foundation, which invites her to the real-world mansion for the same party in the simulation. There, Yu and Haynes recruit investors and researchers (including Watts) for their project to create a memory machine, and unveil an early prototype. The two try their hardest in maintaining their relationship amidst Lynri's long work hours. However, the strain eventually gets to the couple.

Some time later, Lynri leaves the apartment in a rush to meet with investors for a demonstration of the machine, but discovers that another researcher has died from using it. Distraught, she quits and decides to go on a world tour with Quincy, a long-time dream of hers. They enjoy the trip, although they discover that Lynri is unintentionally pregnant. The couple's lives progress happily as they prepare for the child, but Lynri's disorder suddenly re-emerges, forcing the couple into a dilemma: either Lynri receives treatment and the child is born prematurely, thereby risking its life; or Lynri forgoes treatment until childbirth, meaning the child is well but her lifespan is potentially shortened.

Lynri decides to carry through with the treatment, and completely recovers from her disorder. The child, born early, is named Tobias Reynard. Because of his early birth, he is wheelchair-bound and sickly. The couple do their best as his parents, but Tobias dies young. This causes a gulf in their marriage. Lynri abandons Quincy and returns to the Foundation, this time having moved to the on-site living quarters. She ignores Quincy's attempts to communicate and throws herself into her work.

Decades later, as an old woman, she decides to stress test the now-reliable memory machine a day before its reveal. She selects her memory of the party and inserts a copy of 'Quincy' with generic memories. The test rapidly develops anomalies, where the simulated Yu and Haynes are randomly murdered despite nothing in the simulation that can cause this. She also discovers that any attempt to activate the in-simulation memory machine causes all persons in the mansion to be murdered and the simulated machine to fail, which did not happen in real life. She enlists the simulated Quincy to investigate. Quincy witnesses anomalies in the memory, like a statue randomly disappearing, hallways becoming endless and black tentacles destroying the simulated machine.

Eventually, Lynri comes to the correct conclusion that she herself is not real but also simulated. She confronts a shadowy figure, revealing herself to be Faye. Faye reveals this to all be the work of the real-world Neil Watts, whose mother Lynri chose not to take the treatment, allowing Neil to be born mostly healthy, but her delayed treatment worsened her disorder, eventually killing her when Neil is a teenager. Before she died, she chose to copy her memories using the machine, so that Neil would have something left of her. An adult Neil licenses the memory technology to Sigmund Corp., which uses it to grant the wishes of dying people. With the help of Faye and other Sigmund Corp. researchers, Neil created a machine to store and simulate the dead, allowing them to live forever; this includes the stored memory of the dead real-world Lynri Watts.

During Neil's stress test, he used the machine to simulate his parents, who in turn ran simulations, which in turn also ran simulations. Faye had to kill the guests and destroy the machine at the memory of the party because Neil's real-world machine was out of memory. Ending all the simulations, Faye combines all permutations of Quincy and Lynri, then creates a final simulation where their lives proceed smoothly. In this simulation, Lynri is treated of her disorder when young, Neil is born without any health problems, and the couple 'die' in peace.

In the real world, Neil is working on the machine and bantering with Faye, when he suddenly receives a 'perimeter breach alert', forcing him to log out of his virtual reality workspace. His colleagues from Sigmund ― Robert Lin, Roxanne Winters, and Eva Rosalene ― have arrived at his home, where Winters had spontaneously decided to bring them all to eat ice cream. The group go off on their trip, as seen in the supplementary comic The Bestest Dancers.

Development and release

Impostor Factory was first announced on March 9, 2019 on Gao's YouTube channel as a title preview, although it was not yet confirmed whether the game would be a part of the Sigmund Corp. series.

The official trailer premiered on August 5, 2020. It prominently features an unnamed lady in a red dress, presumably the same one featured in the promotional posters. Laura Shigihara, whose vocals were featured in the previous installments, does not return to the series in which Kan stated in his Discord server that he thought her voice wasn't suited for the game's darker elements.

References

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