Resonance (video game)

Resonance is a graphic adventure game made by the American developer XII Games and released by Wadjet Eye Games.

The story begins with Ed, a lab assistant to particle physicist Professor Javier Morales. He meets a woman named Anna on a train, and the two strike up a conversation. When Ed reaches the lab, he finds Detective Bennett already there responding to an emergency. The lab is wrecked, and Professor Morales is dead. Meanwhile, a political blogger named Ray is looking into a secretive group called Antevorta, following leads from an anonymous source. He discovers a hidden database containing DNA records for the entire country, stored inside a hospital. Ed and Bennett end up taking Morales’s body to that same hospital, where they run into both Ray and Anna—who turns out to be a doctor and Morales’s niece. Ed explains that Morales was working on a technology called Resonance, which could be turned into a devastating weapon. The four decide to work together to find out who killed Morales and keep the Resonance research out of dangerous hands. That night, someone breaks into Anna’s apartment. She barely escapes and rejoins Ed and Bennett.

The group learns that Morales had a secret vault somewhere in the city, likely holding his research. Bennett steals the lab blueprints from police records, and Ray gets Morales’s financial history from a contact. The vault’s exact location has been erased from the security company’s files, but they manage to find it anyway, in tunnels beneath the lab. Inside the vault, Bennett is held at gunpoint as Ed accuses him of being bribed by Antevorta. Anna accesses the vault’s computer and discovers that Morales was actually her father, not her uncle. She has a choice to download or delete the Resonance data, but before she can act, Bennett realizes that Ed had been taking a deliberately long metro route just to be on Anna’s train line at the start of the game. Ed is the Antevorta spy. He shoots Anna, grabs the Resonance devices, and escapes.

After leaving the vault, Bennett and Ray find themselves blamed for the murders of both Anna and Morales. They are now fugitives. A meeting is arranged with the man who stole the vault plans—who also happens to be Ray’s source and works for Antevorta. From him, they track Ed to the hospital, where Ed is trying to destroy the Antevorta database. He has placed the Resonance devices in the bas