Planned Release Date: 2025

About This Game

THE PROTAGONIST

A haunting descent into memory, silence, and the frozen remains of a broken world.

In the silence of a dead Earth, where darkness is both your greatest enemy and your only companion, The Protagonist offers a narrative-driven psychological horror experience set 635 years after the sun’s collapse.

You play as Varon Orimir, a shattered soul following a mysterious radio signal through the caverns of an underground world — a voice that echoes the memory of the daughter he thought lost.

Gameplay & Mechanics

• An unforgettable emotional story
  Immerse yourself in a tale of grief, guilt, and the desperate longing for redemption — told through fragmented memories, symbolic spaces, and chilling voice-overs. Every step leads you closer to a painful truth… or a comforting lie.

• Exploration.
  The game focuses on exploration in a surreal and ever-changing world.

Story & Themes

Centuries after the sun’s collapse — an event remembered as Stillwake — Earth has become a frozen wasteland. The last remnants of humanity survive deep underground, fractured by their own religious beliefs and isolated from one another.

You are Varon Orimir, a former NOVA pilgrim haunted by an unspeakable past.
When a mysterious voice on the radio speaks with the words of your missing daughter, you descend into a world where loneliness, darkness, and the fragile remnants of hope are your only companions.

What Makes It Unique

• Emotionally intense, voice-driven narrative
  Experience a story that unfolds through atmospheric exploration, haunting voice-overs, and an original soundtrack — blurring the line between memory and madness.

• Post-apocalyptic silence, not action
  No weapons. No combat. Only you, your thoughts, and a dying world that remembers everything you’ve done.

Playtime

Around 3 hours of tightly focused, atmospheric storytelling — crafted to be experienced in one intense, unforgettable sitting.

Sound & Music

• Original, haunting, emotional score
  Every note amplifies the themes of loss, isolation, and fading hope.

• Emotionally shattering voice acting
  Each line of dialogue pulls you deeper into a bottomless pit of grief and uncertainty.

Core Themes

• Haunting Memories – fractured echoes of a past that won’t let go

• Guilt & Forgiveness – the endless struggle between burden and release

• Silence – oppressive, sacred, and inescapable

• Loss & Hope in a Dead World – fragile light within eternal darkness

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Psychological trauma, loss, and grief

Implied self-harm and emotional breakdown

Depictions of emotional abuse and guilt

Hallucinations, paranoia, and loss of reality

Disturbing sound design, symbolic imagery, and visual disorientation

No explicit sexual content or graphic violence, but a heavy focus on psychological tension and inner conflict