The Last Tape: Before the Mine
<p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3794250/extras/c9ca1cea1c3a40a67cb25dfaadea8af8.avif?t=1783245957" width=1560 height=878 /></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" ><strong>The Last Tape: Before The Mine</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" ><i>It was just a tape.<br>Just memories… until it wasn’t.</i></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>The Last Tape: Before The Mine</strong> is the first official chapter of a dark first-person psychological horror story, where memories are not just echoes of the past… but gateways to something that should never have been uncovered.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >In 1990, <strong>Mia Jane disappeared during a camping trip in Black Wood</strong>, a forested area near the facilities of <strong>Lurmont</strong>, a company that operated under the façade of an environmentally harmless mining site in the BlackWood Forest, California. The case was never solved.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Years later, <strong>Gabriel</strong>, desperate to find a cure for an infection that is slowly consuming Mia, returns to the abandoned ruins of Lurmont. There, he discovers a video tape.<br>A recording that doesn’t just contain memories… but the truth someone tried to bury.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Following the events of the <strong>free Prologue available on Steam</strong>, Gabriel plays the tape, unaware that doing so awakens <strong>B-96</strong> — a presence that does not belong entirely to the past or the present… but can move through both.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >🕯️ <strong>YOU ARE NOT ALONE</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Even while watching a recording, <strong>you are not safe</strong>.<br>B-96 moves around you in real time, lurking in the shadows of Black Wood, waiting for the exact moment to interrupt the tape and force you to react.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >🏃 <strong>FIGHTING IS NOT AN OPTION</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >You are not a soldier.<br>You have no weapons.<br>Your only choices are to <strong>run, hide, and use the environment</strong> while exploring the mountain’s horrors and uncovering the dark secrets Lurmont left behind.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >📼 <strong>TWO TIMELINES, ONE TRUTH</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >You will experience two intertwined stories:</p><ul class="bb_ul"><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Gabriel</strong>, in the present, vulnerable to B-96 while trying to uncover the origin of the infection and the true nature of the tape.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Mia Jane</strong>, in the past, through the recording made during the 1990 camping trip, where the first signs of the horror begin to surface.</p></li></ul><p class="bb_paragraph" >Both are connected by the same tape.<br>Both must survive.<br>Your constant attention is the key to keeping them alive.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >🏚️ <strong>LURMONT COMPANY</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >For years, Lurmont operated without oversight, conducting <strong>inhuman experiments</strong> under the excuse of mining. When something went terribly wrong, the area was abandoned and the forest reclaimed it.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >But some secrets <strong>refuse to stay buried</strong>.<br>And the tape is proof of that.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >📖 <strong>CHAPTER ONE</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >This game is the <strong>first entry in the main <i>The Last Tape</i> storyline</strong>.<br>For a complete narrative experience and better context, playing the <strong>free Prologue</strong> beforehand is strongly recommended.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><i>The tape doesn’t just show the horror created by a corporation.</i><br><strong>It makes you part of it.</strong></p>