The game's blatant steampunk genre lets the developers of 80 Days spice up the journey of Passpartout and Fogg with exotic transporte options and surreal technology, while also justifying their inclusion of characters from Jules Verne's science fiction novels such as Michael Arden, a daring space explorer in From The Earth To The Moon, or Captain Nemo, the anti-villainous captain of the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

In short, the world of 80 Days is incredibly steampunk, featuring exaggerated forms of 19th century technology, clockwork automatons, and walking cities, many of them created by a mysterious and inscrutable Artificers Guild. or through more fantastical options such as giant airships, submarines, floating cities, gyrocopters, walking mechanical elephants, and even moon rockets, if they take the right route. Players, controlling Passpartout and Fogg, can choose to travel by train and steamship. The world of 80 Days is similar, but distinctly different from the real-world setting of the original Around The World In 80 Days. As the Passpartout of their stories, players manage the finances and morale of Phileas Fogg and choose their own routes and means of travel around the world, one which takes place on an alternate Earth with steampunk technology, references to Verne's other works, and characters who challenge the prejudices baked into the viewpoints of the average Victorian. The interactive narrative game 80 Days, released in 2014, challenges gamers to break the records of both these fictional and real Victorian adventurers. 16 years after the book was published, American journalist Nelly Bly embarked on her own real-life journey to circumnavigate the world via train and steamship, completing the trip in 72 days (and beating competing journalist Elizabeth Bisland's own record of 76 days). Like most of Verne's other books, Around The World In 80 Days wound up predicting the future with remarkable accuracy.

Related: 13 Science Fiction Futures That Never Came To Pass His adventure novel Around The World In 80 Days, technically not one of his 'scientific romances,' was still born out of the same awe/fear of technology's potential that Verne and other residents of the Victorian era shared. Despite being one of the earliest science fiction writers, he had a formidable talent for guessing the future, predicting the existence of motorized submarines in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, circumlunar space travel in From The Earth To The Moon, and nearly every aspect of modern society in his posthumously published work Paris In The Twentieth Century. Jules Verne, frequently referred to as the 'father of science fiction,' wrote most of his 'Voyages Extraordinaires' between 18.

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