Developers explicitly stated there was no feminist or political agenda behind the choice. The story follows this cold agent of the Collective as she time-travels to 1980s Poland to extract essences during a body-horror plague called The Change, with later revelations tying her to Weronika Kamiński’s essence transfer.

This setup stays grounded in traditional survival horror elements like resource management, body horror fusions into Orphans, and time-loop mysteries. The game avoids all identity politics, featuring no LGBTQ+ characters, romances, pronoun elements, or activist framing. Named characters such as Edward Wiśniewski, Artur Baryka, Dr. Dawid Zybert, Eliza Zybert, and Warden/Pathfinder fit the 1980s Polish setting organically without forced diversity or localization changes. There is no DEI consultancy, character creation systems, or subplots centered on gender or identity, keeping the focus on the core premise of transformation, sacrifice, and humanity drawn from Polish history and classic horror influences like The Thing.