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Bioforge is one of those weird, ambitious MS-DOS games that sticks with you—part sci-fi mystery, part clunky combat simulator, and full of that janky early-3D charm. You wake up in some creepy facility with no memory, and half the fun is piecing together who (or what) you even are by scrounging up PDAs and notes scattered around. The controls take some getting used to—fighting feels like wrestling with a tank, since you’ve gotta line up attacks just right while the camera angles suddenly flip on you. But there’s something satisfying about finally nailing a combo or figuring out how to hot-swap your weird cyborg battery mid-fight.

Most of the puzzles involve hacking terminals or timing things just right, and some actually put the pressure on with countdowns. The armored suit you find lets you explore outside, which is a nice change of pace from the claustrophobic labs. Just don’t expect hand-holding—this game makes you work for every scrap of story, but stumbling onto a new log entry and hearing that little "blip" of your character updating his diary feels weirdly rewarding. It’s messy, sometimes frustrating, but totally unique for its time.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".