H.P. Lovecraft meets XCOM!
Control The PIB and defend the world against Lovecraftian horrors.
Don't let humanity fall to the cultists, paranormal entities, and Elder Gods!
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
- H.P. Lovecraft
When the stars are right, the veil between our reality and others become dangerously thin. So thin that breaching through can be done with minimal effort by even the weakest of magic rituals or pseudo-scientific contraptions. These wounds of the veil allow corruption from more ominous realms to pass into our world, transforming innocent creatures into paranormal entities of legend and unleashing inexplicable horrors unto the world.
Cults of our world work to tear this veil open with obscene rituals which will summon forgotten horrors of ancient times, and to conjure up portals that could reach outside of the ordered universe, to summon the Ultimate Gods.
The only real defense against these beings, entities, and events of the paranormal is an old and ancient world-spanning order – now known as the Paranormal Intelligence Bureau (PIB). Agents recruited from around the world, fighting to rid the world of this ominous threat.
Inspired by games such as the XCOM and Final Fantasy Tactics Series, Paranormal Intelligence Bureau will be a tactical turn-based game. The goal is to save the world of the roaring 20's from a threat of paranormal nature.
From your headquarters aboard a majestic zeppelin, you control a roster of agents to combat the paranormal threat, close shut any ruptures in the veil and banish the Elder Gods themselves.
Features
- Control a bureau specialized in handling paranormal events.
- Build and manage bases around the globe.
- Recruit agents to help with the ongoing fight.
- Investigate paranormal signs found through careful screening of the news and stories around the world.
- Procedurally generated campaigns with 1 or more missions that should be completed before tackling any uncovered threat.
- Send out response teams, infiltrate cults, and recover eldritch artifacts or grimoires of old.
- Close inter-dimensional and inter-planetary portals or even banish the Elder Gods
Beat the paranormal and save the world!
Agents are the main tool for the player to not only respond to paranormal events, but also handle matters at the HQ. Each agent is trained within roles with their own set of unique abilities:
- The Soldier: Usually veterans of the Great War, the Soldier is a specialist in both unarmed and armed combat. While the more ominous horrors often are impervious to physical damage, the Soldier is essential to distract any adversaries. While you work to banish the horrors of our world.
- The Medic: Specialists in both traditional medicine and experimental alchemy. Hence the Medic is the perfect support role for healing the bodies of and boosting your Agents.
- The Parapsychologist: Skilled in both the arcane & mystical and the workings of the mind & psyche. The Parapsychologist, therefore, takes care of any ruptures in the veil with occult rituals. And also makes sure their fellow Agents keep their sanity in the presence of eldritch horror.
The Lovecraftian Mythos plays a huge role in the game with entities like:
- Great Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones.
- The daemon sultan Azathoth and the Other Gods and their soul and messenger Nyarlathotep.
- All-knowing, all-seeing Yog-Sothoth, the gate, the key and the guardian. Said to be guarding the veil between realities, time and space.
- Lovecraft's more mortal races like The Elder Things with their abominable Shoggoths, the Mi-Go from the planet Yuggoth and the time traveling Great Race of Yith.
- The increasing corruption from the thinning of the veil also transforms the worlds flora and fauna into the more common monsters of legend: Vampires, Werewolves, Ghouls, Zombies, Ghosts and more.
The Team
Kybernesis, founded 2007 have so far released one game, Wasteland Bar Fight. The team members vary from self-taught developers to bachelors and masters within game design, writing, and music.
Blink Studios, founded 2011, consists of 4 veterans from the industry, Sigbjørn Galåen, Eigil Jarl Halse, Kjetil Hjeldnes and Christer Sveen. Their track records include such games as The Thing, Dreamfall, Dreamfall: Chapters, Messiah, Age of Conan and The Secret World.
Articles
Paranormal Intelligence Bureau (PIB) is a series of turn-based tactics games in the style of XCOM and Final Fantasy Tactics. The games will focus on agents of the Bureau's fight against horrors based on Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Or as he himself would call it, Yog-Sothothery. PIB Origins will explore the origins of the cast of PIB.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" - H.P Lovecraft
Introducing PIB Origins
The main Paranormal Intelligence Bureau game is a huge project. Because of this, we decided some time ago that PIB is going to be a series of smaller games, exploring the origin stories of the cast of PIB. Enter PIB Origins.
Our current cast consists of The Soldier, The Medic and The Parapsychologist. These three will be the main characters through the PIB Origins series. The first story in PIB Origins will be the origin story of the Soldier.
PIB Origins, a series of smaller turn-based horror games
PIB Origins will be split into three smaller stories, which are part of a bigger story arch. Each story will feature three episodes. This way we can get PIB out much earlier to you, the player. In the past we stated that the Lovecraft mythos plays a huge role in PIB. But how does Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos interact with the PIB-universe you ask?
To pique the interest of all you Lovecraft fans out there, we made a spoiler-free list of some select entities playing a role in the PIB-universe.
- Great Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones.
- The daemon sultan Azathoth and the Other Gods and their soul and messenger Nyarlathotep.
- All-knowing, all-seeing Yog-Sothoth, the gate, the key and the guardian. Said to be guarding the veil between realities, time and space.
- Lovecraft's more mortal races like The Elder Things with their abominable Shoggoths, the Mi-Go from the planet Yuggoth and the time travelling Great Race of Yith.
- The increasing corruption from the thinning of the veil also transforms the worlds flora and fauna into the more common monsters of legend: Vampires, Werewolves, Ghouls, Zombies, Ghosts and more.
Furthermore, we can now reveal that the first episode of PIB Origins will be available for purchase in 2018!
The Zebrina
Like we mentioned, our first origin story will introduce The Soldier. He served on board the infamous ship, The Zebrina. According to official sources, The Zebrina was transporting coal from Falmouth, UK to St. Brieuc, France. Two days later, the ship was (in)famously found ashore on Rozel Point, south of Cherbourg, with no sign of the crew. The first episode of PIB Origins will include our version of what actually happened to the crew during those two days in 1917.
Screenshot of The Zebrina
PIB's first episode will focus on the two days after the departure from Falmouth in October, 1917. The channel in World War I was already dangerous with German submarines sinking British and French ships. So the game will feature German submarines of the time. You can see our version of a German submarine below. Be warned though, in our version of the story the crew might encounter far worse things than German marines. More on this in upcoming blog posts.
German submarine featuring in PIB. The U-21
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As an extra treat, we present to you this theme music that our composer, Tristan Gray, exclusively composed for the Paranormal Intelligence Bureau. This will feature in the game. He calls it "Zebrina". We will leave the rest up to your imagination.
The Lovecraftian horror aspect
NewsA lot of people ask us what we mean when we say the game will have Lovecraftian horror. Especially based on the fact that many games these days advertise...
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