Indika follows a nun in late 19th-century Russia who navigates daydreams, domestic chores, and platforming puzzles. The game opens with an arcade-style fall sequence before returning to a close-up of Indika apologizing for distractedness and performing menial tasks like collecting potatoes and water. A visible skill tree records odd, largely symbolic stats such as grief and duty. Indika is isolated among the sisters and experiences intense anxiety while hearing the Devil's voice inside her head. She accepts a mission to walk a letter across a brutal Russian winter, accompanied by an escaped prisoner named Ilya who claims divine communication.
The game's opening scene shows its heroine, the nun Indika, falling from the sky in the style of a retro arcade game, collecting pickups as she tumbles. That ends with her crashing back to reality, the camera in tight close-up on her face as she apologizes to the other sisters - clearly not for the first time - for getting caught in a daydream in the midst of her duties.
Indika, you quickly learn, is an outcast among the other nuns, prone to bouts of intense anxiety. And though she's committed to her life in the convent, that's somewhat complicated by the fact that she regularly speaks to the Devil. Yes, aside from Indika's, the voice you'll be hearing most during the game is that of the Devil, a constant presence inside the nun's head, challenging her faith and trying to push her from the pious path she walks.
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