Zeno Clash is a fighting game featuring some first person elements based on a modified version of Source engine. It is the creation of ACE Team, an independent company founded by three brothers (Andres Bordeu, Carlos Bordeu and Edmundo Bordeu), former known for their MOD games based on Doom 2 and Quake 3 engine sources. From the beginning the game was meant to be released only online, first on Steam and later on other digital distributors, at a reasonable price, similar to a normal MOD package. But despite these marketing solutions, Zeno Clash is still a full standalone product, an unconventional game that has brought a fresh breeze in a period when everything in the gaming industry seems to hover around financial solutions and not creativity.

If you are into fighting/action games set in a punk fantasy world, Zeno Clash is your choice. You will get plenty of fighting moments from the first person perspective (similar to Dark Messiah), some shooting sequences, but most important, you will get a world never seen before where order and evolution is not necessarily its main catalyst. You will play as Ghat, as he is regaining consciousness after an explosion. The training session takes place in the character's mind, conducted by a strange creature which seems to know the cause of the explosion.  This explosion was the result of a fight between Ghat and his hermaphrodite parent known as Father-Mother, who has turned on him with unknown reason. Yes, you heard me! Father-Mother is a hermaphrodite character, probably the only one in the gaming history. As weird and out of place it may look like, this character is just the first in a huge chain of unconventional creatures which inhabit the fictional world of Zenozoik.

Let's take for example the Corwid of the Free clan, some kind of a tribe which lives in wilderness, a clan with mindless members which suffer from different obsessions. Metamoq wants to help anybody despite the price he might pay for his actions, including losing his life. Helim wants to be invisible and therefore he removes every creature's eyes. Gabel eats other Corwids, and that's what he does all day. Ghat was also a member of the Corwid of the Free, but he left the tribe because he was overwhelmed by their craziness, caused by this total freedom, without any rules or moral limits. He still has a sense of admiration for his former brothers from the tribe, even when he begins to fight against them. But let's get back to the story.