Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Release Date:
July 2025
Developer:
Publisher:
Gameplay | Gameplay Trailer
Screenshot #1
Screenshot #2
Screenshot #3
Screenshot #4
Screenshot #5
Screenshot #6
Screenshot #7
Screenshot #8
Screenshot #9
Screenshot #10
Screenshot #11
Screenshot #12
General / Cinematic | Announcement Trailer
General / Cinematic | Story Trailer

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

Download The Demons Told Me to Make This Game Demo

This game is not yet available on Steam

Planned Release Date: July 2025

Interested?
Add to your wishlist and get notified when it becomes available.
Add to your wishlist
 

About This Game

On the quiet, cold morning of October 26, 2016, exactly at 5:00 A.M., many things happened all at once.

A bloody ritual was concluded.
A young man lost his memory.
A small creature, named Dark Wisp, was born in the vastness of the Void.

The rooftops of Red Hives welcomed the light of a new day.
The last day of the world.

The Demons Told Me to Make This Game is a Time Loop game and a cosmic horror narrative adventure about demons, monsters, evil cults, bloody rituals, and Elder Gods.

You play as Dark Wisp, a disembodied spirit who is unable to interact with the physical world directly, but instead can possess people and speak into their ears, influencing their behavior.

Your hosts have agency and will keep trying to act on their own accord, but you mustn't let them do that. They're dumbasses, and without your help they will imminently perish. Fortunately, you have control over the flow of time, so you can undo their stupidity whenever you want.

Make choices. Experiment. Explore different timelines. Learn what you need and help your hosts survive. After all, they're the ones destined to save the world.

To complete TDTMTMTG, you will have to solve a series of Time Loops.

Loops are broken down into Time Slots to help you experiment with their interconnected events. In each Time Slot, you will possess one host, leaving the rest to their own devices, free to make their impressively bad decisions.

Keeping your hosts alive won't be easy. To weave a timeline of their survival, you will need to see the events from different perspectives and rely on numerous, often cruel experiments. You will make your hosts do despicable things, and you will watch them die, over and over again, gaining knowledge and wisdom with each instance. 

Once you have crafted the perfect sequence of events, the loop is completed, and the story moves forward.

Flawed as they are, your hosts are thinking people. You don't have direct control over what they do or say. 

Each host has a unique, strong personality. Making them do what needs to be done will require finesse and patience, as well as complete disregard for their well-being.

Be their best friend. Be their worst bully. Cheer for them. Mock them. Take advantage of their deepest fears and anxieties. The hosts may not always listen, but they will always hear you. And even if reasoning with them fails, you can always play a mini-game to hijack their brains. 

To solve the time loop, you will have to make your hosts do terrible things that go against their very nature.

Red Hives may look like a small, dying town where nothing ever happens, but don't let the looks deceive you. The history of this place is riddled with terrible tragedies and things way worse than demons lurk in its shadows.

The only ones standing against the darkness are a ragged crew of exorcists. Brave but hopelessly unprepared for what they face. Fortunately, they have you. As you guide them, bending wills and shaping fates, one question lingers: whose side are you really on?

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The Demons Told Me to Make This Game contains stylized gore, frequent use of mature language, depictions of smoking, references to sexual activity, and exactly one magical item that has taken the form of a pink sex toy.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11
    • Processor: x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support.
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.
    • DirectX: Version 10
    • Storage: 4 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10 (64bit) and up
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-4690k / AMD Athlon 3000G
    • Memory: 6 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 4GB / AMD R9 290 4GB
    • Storage: 5 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and up
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 / Apple M1
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Metal capable GPU
    • Storage: 4 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur) and up
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 / Apple M1
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Metal capable GPU (e.g., Intel Iris Plus Graphics / Apple M1 GPU)
    • Storage: 4 GB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
There are no reviews for this product

You can write your own review for this product to share your experience with the community. Use the area above the purchase buttons on this page to write your review.