A walking music instrument. Viskuli, December 1991, inside a secluded estate in the Belavezha Forest, three political signatures help dissolve the Soviet Union. Outside, the communications network goes quiet while \35years later, signal-corps investigator LEONID Samokhvalov leavesthemaintenance road and the public map ends at the perimeter, unlike the signalsigns. Lestvica: Marrows, a compact top-down forensic adventure made for the original Game Boy, Nintendo DS / 3ds or emulators like Sameboy, or even physically print it. There, explore a frozen estate at a breaking historic point, figure the severed telephone infrastructure, underground document stacks, Wlodzimierz Sedlak’s biological laboratory, also a forest-deep hangar whose obsolete systems have begun making connections of their own.

Progress depends on observation and move, where each move makes a sound. To read records, to trace circuits, to change instruments, to do, according to what the material can reveal, with bare hands, with signal meters, or an entire polarized viewer, with alignment anchor devices where each analog tool can produce a different account of the same infrastructure. This READABLE Edition preserves the game’s strange archival atmosphere while revising its text for clarity and the Game Boy’s twenty-character display.

what is inside the game

- A complete 20–95 minute investigation.

- 23 connected locations, including two concealed rooms.

- 4(5) investigation tools with distinct material uses.

- Archival documents, environmental puzzles

- Native 32 KB Game Boy ROM made with GBDK.

- Standalone 64-bit Windows edition with an integrated emulator (in progress, coming soon)

- Original four-channel Game Boy soundtrack and sound effects.

- No combat, sudden death or internet requirement.

Controls!

Windows edition:

Arrow keys Walk with SOUNDS

`Z`  Interact, confirm, advance dialogue

`X`  Cycle investigation tool or cancel 

`Enter`  Start game or advance cutscee 

 `Backspace` Inspect the equipped tool/status 

the game window may be resized while preserving its aspect ratio.

Game Boy ROM

D-pad soundwalk

A Interact, confirm, advance dialogue

B Cycle investigation tool

START Start game or advance cutscene

SELECT Inspect the equipped tool/status