It’s not finished.
The walls aren’t clean.
The lights flicker when I’m tired.
But I’m still here, getting the place ready for you.
Try not to die before the performance is complete.
Welcome to ...
There is no game, Reed. Not really.
This is a system. A story. A study in choices.
And you're the variable.
But if you're insisting on a summary,
then fine. For your sake—or mine—
I’ll try to explain what you’re walking into.
In the late 1980s, the Helix Limina Research Group was working on a secret that would change humanity. Then, it vanished from all records. Your older brother was part of that secret. You've spent years searching, and you've finally found the remote, crumbling facility where he was last seen. You have to know what happened to him. You may find out, but the truth is buried under years of rust and ruin.
The facility has a caretaker. Someone who was close with your brother will be your guide and tormentor. He has the truth you are looking for. He might be willing to share. For a price. Find him. His voice is a constant presence, broadcast through the facility's ancient security system, reacting to your every move. The grainy, distorted feed of the security cameras is your window into this world. It's his window, too. And he never looks away.
Your default view is his view. But you are not powerless. You can fight back, wrestling your perspective away from the cold, detached security feed and diving directly into the magnetic tape. In an instant, the world will snap from a low-resolution CRT monitor into a crisp, raw, first-person VHS reality. This control is a fleeting, hard-won struggle; linger too long, and the narrator will violently rip your perspective back out, leaving you disoriented and vulnerable.
Your only tool is a strange futuristic camera left behind by the facility's former head of trans-dimensional research, Project: Hecate. This device interacts with the world in unstable ways, allowing you to perceive reality on a different frequency or making obstacles vanish entirely, revealing hidden pathways and buried secrets.
The narrator is not a recording. He is an active participant in your investigation, and he remembers everything. The clues you find, the photos you take, and the order you uncover them in will directly influence the story he tells. His version of the truth will shift and conform to the path you carve through the facility. Two players can walk the same halls and be told two entirely different stories. You are not a visitor in his world; you are a variable in his experiment.
Your flashlight is a guiding beacon. Keep its batteries powered. It’s your only source of constant light. And your source of documentation requires batteries. Every moment, your camera requires power - photographing, looking through or deleting photos, and just the constant drain. There’s always batteries somewhere.
Use your hands to actively search. Grab handles to use doors. Grab dresser drawers and lockers to open them. If you need to distract the Promethean, pick up anything that isn’t nailed down and toss it. Throw it off your trail. Investigate, find a story.
The Promethean, a catastrophic failure of the project, still stalks these halls. Nearly blind, it hunts by sound. After the years, it's now a shadow of its former self. But be careful. Every footstep, every thrown object, every panicked breath can be a death sentence. Use the crumbling environment to your advantage in a deadly game of hide-and-seek where you are the prey.
See Through His Eyes, Then Steal Them: Wrestle your view from the grainy 3rd-person security feed into a raw, 1st-person VHS perspective. But be warned, he will always take it back.
A Narrative That Remembers: Uncover a story that actively changes based on your choices and discoveries. The narrator reacts to what you know at every beat, creating a unique experience for every playthrough. The more you uncover, the more the story he tells begins to change.
Outwit a Blind Predator: Every sound is a lure. Use throwable objects to create distractions and the shadows to hide from the creature that was once a man.
Wield a Reality-Bending Camera: Your only tool is a unique camera that can make parts of the world disappear, revealing hidden clues, solving environmental puzzles, and exposing the facility's lies.
A Truly Physical World: Use your hands to interact with the environment. Grab and push open doors, pull open drawers, and physically search for the secrets hidden within.
Find What the Camera Sees: Wield a unique camera that can make parts of the world disappear, revealing clues, solving puzzles, and exposing the lies built into the facility's very walls.
Survive on Scavenged Power: Your flashlight and camera both run on batteries. Every photo taken and every moment of light is a resource you'll have to find to survive the darkness.
