A New Beginning

A point-and-click adventure game about a mission to travel back in time and prevent a global climate catastrophe with the help of an irritable retired scientist.

Mac

iPad

Overview

A New Beginning is a point & click adventure game developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment. It was initially released for PC and Mac in Germany in 2010, followed by a wider European release in 2011 and a worldwide release in 2012. It was later ported to iOS, a version which was released (worldwide) in 2015. (A Wii version was intended for release but cancelled.) The game follows the story of an impending global cataclysm due to extreme climate change.

Story

Bio-engineer Bent Svensson has retired from researching alternative renewable energy sources for the planet and moves to a remote forests of Norway. His retirement is ended abruptly by a young woman named Fay who is claiming to be from the future. She explains that she has come back to prevent the upcoming catastrophe and that Bent's research is the only hope for the planet. At the same time, a greedy energy tycoon is close to getting his hands on that exact research, and wishes to use it for his own money making schemes. Bent and Fay must veer the planet off its predicted path in order to save everything.

Chapters

Prologue
Leaden Air
A Night In The Global
Rude Awakening
The Conference
Atlas, Part 1
Atlas, Part 2
Bent Svensson Is Dead
The Phoenix Plan

System Requirements (PC)

Minimum

OS : Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor : 2 GHz single-core or 1.8 GHz dual-core
Memory : 1.5 GB RAM
Graphics : 3D graphics card compatible with OpenGL 2.0, 256 MB VRAM
Sound Card : Compatible with DirectX 9.0c
Hard Drive : 5 GB HDD, 3.5 GB available space

OS : Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2.0GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+
Memory :2 GB RAM
Graphics : ATI Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce compatible with OpenGL 2.0 with a minimum of 256 MB VRAM
Sound Card : Compatible with DirectX 9.0c
Hard Drive : 5 GB HDD, 3.5 GB available space

System Requirements (Mac)

Minimum

OS : OS X 10.7 or newer
Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2.0GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+
Memory : 2 GB RAM
Hard Drive : 5 GB available space

Availability

A New Beginning: Final Cut can be purchased from GOG, Steam, GamersGate, and Humble Bundle for desktop computers, or via the App Store for iOS platforms.