Tuberculosis: Into the Dark
Something small has been breathed in. Now it is lost in the dark.
Tuberculosis: Into the Dark is a horror Metroidvania for Android set inside the human body. You play Myco, a tiny imaginary bacterium carried in by a single droplet. Four chapters lead through wet airways, breathing alveoli and the belly of an immune cell, years inside the wall the body builds, the lymph roads - and finally the treatment, which no bacterium can beat. The person is cured; that is the ending.
Dark rooms, watching eyes, whispers and immune-cell monsters with teeth hunt you through six zones and six multi-phase bosses. Every attack is announced by a clear warning; new powers such as Dormancy and the Tether open new paths, and a branching evolution tree changes how Myco fights, moves and looks. A daily gift, daily tasks and a question of the day, a weekly Boss Rush, the endless Deep and New Game+ keep it going after the story.
The Codex explains what tuberculosis really is - how it spreads, TB infection and TB disease, risk factors, tests, treatment and why the whole course matters, the BCG vaccine, prevention and drug resistance - with sources from WHO, CDC, NHLBI and MedlinePlus. Myco’s powers are fiction; the game is not medical advice. The game is free; a small ad banner appears only in its menus, and a player may choose to watch a short ad to give Myco spore wings for a few seconds of flight or to double the daily gift.