You are Alexander, keeper of a giant steampunk clock tower. Each day, for as long as he can remember, Alexander has been adjusting mechanisms, oiling gears, making repairs and keeping time — the clock’s essential resource — running as it should.

Alexander is awakened one day by a mysterious voice that tells him the clock has been sabotaged. As a result, time begins to run wild.

This causes Alexander to start aging rapidly, leaving him little time to discover what’s happened and fix things before he ceases to exist. Along the way, he must collect time to regenerate his youth.

With the voice as a guide and armed with a magnetic glove and time bombs, Alexander must search the the halls and arcades of five vast locations in pursuit of the saboteur. He will encounter various obstacles, enemies and riddles buried in the clock’s intricate mechanisms.

He must push on, save the clock and restore time to its natural rhythm. As he does so, he will gradually uncover the mysteries of the tower and its strange past.

Micropsia and 1C will present The Watchmaker at this year’s Gamescom in Cologne. The game will be released for Windows, PS4 and Xbox One in Q2 2017.