ONE ROOM DREAD: Horror Deduction, Free Demo
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
ONE ROOM DREAD: Horror Deduction, Free Demo is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
Something is in the room with you. You cannot fight it. You cannot leave. You can only name it, and to name it you have to work out what it is, in the dark, with a lamp that is burning down. THREE INSTRUMENTS, AND EVERY ONE OF THEM LIES. The mirror shows you its crown, but there are crowns it cannot tell apart. The lamp shows you what its edges are doing, and it is blind to some of them.
The tape reads how it has been moving, off your own log, if you have given it enough to read. Your eyes read its body for free. Only once it is close enough. Only if the light reaches it. Learning which lie you are being told is most of the game. NAMING IT WRONG DOES NOT KILL YOU. IT BRINGS IT CLOSER. Which is also the only reliable way to get a proper look at it. That trade is the game.
IT IS NEVER THE SAME THING TWICE. Forty authored marks across six axes (body, crown, limbs, surface, glow, motion) combining into 11,304 legal appearances and 67,824 distinct entities once motion is counted. Nothing is a sprite. Every creature, every stain on the wall and every frame of the tube it arrives on is drawn by the game, live, from rules. Not that many creatures stored. That many creatures possible.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.