Little Orpheus is an adventure platformer with puzzle and action elements in the science fiction genre. 1962 NASA is trying to land a man on the moon. Meanwhile, in a remote corner of Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut is heading in a completely different direction. Ivan Ivanovich plunges into an extinct volcano in a research capsule in order to explore the center of the Earth. And disappears.
3 years later he returns and claims that he managed to save the world. He also lost the nuclear bomb that provided Little Orpheus with energy. He is sent to a top-secret bunker deep under the Ural Mountains to be interrogated by the stern General Yurkov, a man so formidable that even Stalin himself would give goosebumps. The general rolls up his sleeves, looks intently at Ivan and asks: “So... where have you been, Comrade Ivanovich?” "Where's my bomb?" And Ivan looks him straight in the eyes and answers: "Here is how it was…"