You’d think inspecting these items would provide a great way of storytelling and getting you up to speed with the war’s events. There are many propaganda media posters, journals, and scientific documents scattered throughout the bunker to interact with. The world outside may be lifeless, but the bunker’s passageways and rooms are weeping with tales and memories of people once gone. The next minute, you can be thrown into a wide-open space that you can freely roam and explore. At one moment, you will be stumbling down a fortified chamber surrounded by dark titanic concrete, which will leave you feeling claustrophobic. The bunker itself is incredibly detailed and has many varied environments. The chapters themselves very much reflect these themes with the surroundings you encounter. As the young boy travels deeper within the bunker, he works through five distinctive chapters named after the stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. Szymon is further fuelled in his quest for revelations with the recent loss of his mother.
You make your way through an abandoned war bunker in search of answers regarding a man in a black and white monochrome picture. You adopt the role of Szymon, a young 12-year-old boy who has lived the entirety of his life in the wasteland of Poland. The war carried on for another twenty years until a large amount of Europe was nuked, creating a constant state of post-apocalyptic nuclear winters with subfreezing temperatures and inhabitable landscapes. Paradise Lost takes place in an alternative timeline where World War II had even more disastrous consequences for the entire world.