A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in. The game has a minimal story, in which the player is told by letters of a mysterious box in a room in a house; as the player solves the puzzles around the box, more notes from the same author - one who previously had solved the mystery of the box - are found, describing the box's use of an ethereal material called "Null", as well as showing the author slowly descending into madness.
Point-and-clickPuzzleIndieFantasymazesteamportalssteam trading cardsatmosphericteleportationlevel selectioneasysteam achievementsdigital distributionsingle-player onlytouch controlsAndroid, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch
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Character
Earnest, intimate, grave and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the game
- Platforms
- Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Fireproof Games
- Publisher
- Team17, Fireproof Games
- Released
- September 19, 2012
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 1 h rushed · 2 h main story · 2.5 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.3/10 from 241 ratings.
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