What's going on here? Who are those blue guys? Why does that guy with the squid head keep blowing you away? Why can't you get a date?

You are Abe, an ignorant, happy floor-waxer in RutureFarms, the most dangerous slaughterhouse on Oddowlrd. You and the rest of the blue guys are Mudokons. You've been a slave all your life for your boxx, Molluck The Glukkon. Molluck represents the Magog Cartel, the meanest bunch of corporate weasels you'll ever meet.

You start the game chained up in a cell, awaiting interrogation by Molluck the Glukkon. You've done something Bad...something very, very bad. What have you done? You'll have to play the game to find out, because Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is a flashback. That means it happened in the past, even though you'll be playing it in th present.

RuptureFarms has driven Meeches, Scrabs and Paramites t th edge of extinction, the only way to boost profits is to turn Abe and his pals into lunch. That's right! - Abe's on the menu! You've got to escape from RuptureFarms. The guards (those squid-head guys, called Sligs) are on the look-out for you, so you'll have to be on your toes if you want to sneak past them. Is a dog-eat-dog world ravaged by corporate greed.

Suffice it to say that your mission is a lot more complicated than just running away from RuptureFarms. You'll have to brave haunted temples, rescue your buddies, survive weird ritual mutilation at the hands of Bigface, learn secret moves, outwite monsters, and turn into a monster yourself before your Oddysee is complete...and even then, you'll probably get the bad game ending because you missed so much stuff the first time through.

You see, there are these secrets scattered all over the place, and everything you do influences your reputation, which has a direct effect on whether your buddies will come to your rescue when you need them the most.