Bernard Ludvigsen lives the life of your average dejected 40-something under oppressive Combine occupation. Until something finds him in his dreams.

City Fourteen has been left in ruins due to a cataclysmic failure of the nexus's dark energy reactor, leaving its inhabitants to compete to escape its shattered labyrinth of fallen buildings and abandoned industrial facilities. Once a proud Civil Protection unit, Bernhard Ludvigsen must brave these wastes alone.