Investigative horror · Browser · Pixel art
Sara Sandoval, a journalist, survives the crash of her helicopter in a village in Tolima, Colombia. With a camera and a radio that is not what it seems, she documents a secret project that turned a young man from Soacha into a monster.
- Free
- No install
- Spanish and English
- Mobile (landscape) and PC
- 16+
Contains violence, corpses, flashing lights and references to real events. Read the content notice.
The game
See, read, record and run
October 2008. Two Cóndor TV helicopters fly to a village in Tolima after a farmer’s complaint. Only one reaches the ground. Sara survives, picks up a camera, a radio and, if she dares, a flashlight, and starts documenting what someone wants erased.
There are no weapons. Your tools are a camera with night vision, a notebook, your eyes and your legs. Proof is the goal: every document, every recording and every choice changes the newscast that ends the story.
- Length
- 35–50 minutes, plus 10–15 of side quests
- Structure
- Prologue, 6 chapters and epilogue
- Platform
- Browser: mobile in landscape and PC
- Languages
- Spanish and English
- Extras
- 18 achievements and time records
- Rating
- Suggested 16+
- Status
- Demo / prototype v0.8
How to play
Four ideas
Document
Take out the camera, frame what it marks in red and hold the frame for 1.6 seconds. Keep photos, read documents and gather evidence in your notebook.
Listen, but doubt
The radio goes quiet where there is no signal. The voice of the Central guides you… and knows more than it says.
Survive
No weapons. Run, manage your stamina, look for the light of the road lamps or stop the monster with the camera flash.
Discover
Documents, letters and an underground laboratory. What you find decides which of the three ending newscasts airs.
Controls
On PC
- WASD move
- Shift run
- Mouse look
- E use or read
- C camera
- F flash
- Tab / M notebook / map
- H help
On your phone
- Left joystick move
- Drag on the right look
- Buttons use, run, camera, record, flash
Use headphones and, on a phone, play in landscape. Your progress is saved in your browser.
Screenshots
What it looks like
Real captures from the current version.
Concept art
The art
Some of the game’s concept art. Artificial-intelligence tools were used to generate part of the art and code.
Sara from behind on the dirt road, the compound in the distance and a silhouette watching her
The giant form seen from the helicopter cockpit
The Cóndor TV studio, for the ending
Sara Sandoval: calm, scared, determined
The Radio: the voice on the radio, normal and glitching
Real events
Fiction, but not invented
Cobertura Total is a horror fiction inspired by Colombia’s “false positives”: civilians killed and presented as guerrillas killed in combat. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) documented at least 6,402 victims between 2002 and 2008.
The characters, the village, the channel, the armed bloc, the company and the project are fictional. The events are not. Inside the game there is a screen, “Memoria”, with an encyclopedic explanation: what happened, how it worked, the 2008 Soacha case, the responsibilities identified, a timeline and the sources.
Open the game and go to Memoria from the main menu.
Who makes it
Turpial Digital Labs
Turpial Digital Labs S.A.S. is a custom software design and development studio focused on automation and AI, based in Soacha – Bogotá, Colombia. Cobertura Total is an in-house project.
Idea, script and direction: Edwin Vesga.
Credits
Idea, script and direction: Edwin Vesga. Production: Turpial Digital Labs S.A.S. Artificial-intelligence tools were used to generate part of the art and code. 3D engine: three.js (MIT license). Typefaces: Michroma, Inter, JetBrains Mono, VT323, Kalam, Special Elite and Press Start 2P (SIL OFL license).