The game starts with an intrepid adventurer in his spaceship, responding to an active distress signal from an abandoned planet. On descent, his faithful companion and cat jumps on the controls, sending them into a dive and crashing into the planet’s surface.
You start the game riding through a forest on your horse, when suddenly you are ambushed by two fairies and a masked imp. The imp steals your ocarina and horse, and when you give chase, you fall through a mysterious hole and into a world on the verge of apocalypse. With no choice but to hunt down the imp and put a stop to him, you set out to recover your ocarina, and, as usual, save the world.
You start the game looking at an old-timey poster advertising the return of the lost merchant vessel Obra Dinn. You, an insurance investigator for the East India company sometime in the 1800s, are called to find out what happened to the good ship and its inhabitants. You are given a book to record your findings and a mysterious pocket watch, and set off to discover who died on the Obra Dinn, and how.
You start the game in an escape pod of a burning spaceship. Warning sirens are blaring, and as your pod is jettisoned from the ship, an explosion rocks your pod, jostling a panel loose and knocking you out. You wake up and climb out of your pod to find yourself floating in the middle of an alien ocean