The World

The World is where Beware takes place.

Seemingly eternally shrouded in fog, the world largely consists of rural countryside with long, windy roads, dirt paths, forests, and wide-open fields. Even during the day, the overcast sky, the rain, and the fog make visibility poor and cars can become stuck in the mud. Rain is a common occurrence. One area is mountainous and contains a massive reservoir.

Although populated by towns, homesteads, and other structures, the world is eerily devoid of life. Every house is dark, every car lies abandoned with doors left open, the bones of cattle litter the fields, and power is completely cut off to everywhere except for the three hydroelectric dams and some isolated homes in the forest (possibly supplied by a generator.) You are all alone in this cold, damp, grey, eery landscape save for the dreaded Pursuers, the passengers of the mysterious Bus, and a few other equally strange inhabitants. White rabbits can also be spotted.

Restoring power via a switch at the dam turns on all the street lamps as well as various other technologies like a film projector.

Locations

 * Trailer Park - Your spawning point
 * Power Plants- Spawning point for the first Pursuers and location of the power switches
 * Babushka's House - The only place aside from the dam that seems to have power
 * Babuska Road - Where the old lady is first spotted
 * Garage - A checkpoint where you can repair your vehicle
 * Gas Station
 * Tunnel

Reasons for current state
The World of Beware leaves one with many questions and gives few possible answers, and even fewer concrete ones.

Existing advanced infrastructure, some of which remain functional, points to the area being inhabited until relatively recently. According to a film projection seen once the power is restored, it seems that an unknown yet massive disaster took place leading to a shortage of resources, crop failure and famine, the collapse of local (possibly national) government and a mass exodus.

The shortage of resources such as fuel could be why the only source of power seems to be the renewable energy provided by the dams, and why control of them is held so tightly by the pursuers.

Crop failure could be the reason for all the cow bones, for with nothing to graze they died off or were killed by some disease. This could point to the cause of the disaster being a devastating blight or disease outbreak.

A roadblock surrounded by crashed or abandoned cars, as well as cars in such a state being spread throughout the world in general, are evidence for a mass exodus as panicked people attempted to flee the area as far as their cars would take them before running out of fuel Massive numbers of cars are found left by bodies of water, indicating a possible mass evacuation by boat.

Another possibility is a nuclear disaster either from an atomic warhead detonation or a reactor meltdown like Chernobyl, killing off local plant and wildlife, driving people from the area, and causing mutations among those who remain which could explain their grotesque appearances.

Location
Evidence such as particular car models used by the Pursuers as well as small details like signs and the Babushka lady hint to Beware taking place in Russia or some other Slavic country. If the disaster was indeed caused by a nuclear reactor meltdown, this could take place in Ukraine near Chernobyl.