Blackout Memphis is a dark action game driven by high speed, challenging difficulty, and a demanding electronic soundtrack in a world full of violence. The story takes place in an alternative version of Memphis in the early 2000s.
You take on the role of an ordinary family man, worn down by the demands of his exhausting job, the challenges of a long-term marriage with a luxury-loving wife, and raising an extroverted teenage daughter. The constant news coverage of escalating violence in Memphis, citywide blackouts, and everyday struggles increasingly weigh on him. Tormented by sleeplessness on one hand and by brutal nightmares during his rare, brief moments of rest on the other, he experiences frequent memory lapses that make everyday life nearly impossible. This ultimately leads him to seek psychological treatment.
As the medication begins to take effect over time and family life starts to settle down, the city plunges into a blood-red wave of violence. Every day brings new murders and bloody gang crimes. The number of victims is unending. Nightly blackouts become more frequent, unsettling the public. No one feels safe anymore. Why aren’t the authorities doing anything? But something seems off—not just in Memphis. Is everything truly as it seems?
Every shot is lethal. Every punch kills you. Every defeat sends you back to the beginning, while the soundtrack drives you to take on the challenge once more.
Game Features
- Fast-paced gunplay in abandoned construction ruins, neon-colored bars, underground casinos, and many other locations of the dark Memphis underworld.
- Fast electronic synthwave music and techno beats drive the gameplay.
- Deadly combat against a variety of gangsters from the Memphis underworld.
- A dark plot full of violence and an almost crushing hopelessness.
- The backstory unfolds through a variety of dialogues with the main character’s family, their psychologist, and a host of shady individuals encounters that take place in fast-food restaurants, video rental stores, mall shops, or through messages on the answering machine between the action-packed game levels.
- As the game progresses, different animal masks can be unlocked to disguise the main character’s identity. Per level, an already unlocked mask can be selected from a gallery to give the player a special trait or change the look of the game.
- A wide arsenal of deadly melee and ranged weapons is available to the player per level. Everything from a baseball bat to an assault rifle can be used against the gangsters.
- Weapons can be thrown to stun the opponent. The fate of the opponent lying on the ground and stunned can be defeated with a finishing move.
- A point system shows the player’s skill per level in a school score.
- In the fast-paced battles, attacking and killing opponents in quick succession as combos can increase the high score.