Planned Release Date: Q3 2026

About This Game

On your first night as a newly hired nurse at Golden Years Nursing Home, nothing feels quite right. The halls are too quiet. The lights hum with an uneven buzz. The few remaining residents seem confused, frightened, or unwilling to speak about what happened during the facility’s final weeks before its sudden closure in 1997.

Your job is simple on paper: complete your rounds, check on patients, log incidents, and keep the night calm. But as the hours pass, the building begins to show its age and its memories. Doors shift when you’re not looking. Call lights flicker from empty rooms. Staff records don’t match the residents you meet. And something in the dark seems to be moving with purpose.

Golden Years is a slow‑burn psychological horror experience focused on atmosphere, tension, and environmental storytelling. There is no combat. Your tools are your flashlight, your clipboard, and your willingness to keep going when every instinct tells you to leave.

Features

• A grounded 1990s nursing‑home setting based on real‑world references

• Night‑shift tasks that slowly unravel into something far more unsettling

• A dynamic tension system that reacts to your behavior and choices - (coming soon)

• A story told through rooms, records, and the residents who remain - (coming soon)

• New Maps to be added in the future as well!

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

We want to be upfront about how AI tools were used during the development of Golden Years. This is a small indie project built mostly by hand, but a few AI assisted elements were used to help speed up production.

Where AI Was Used
A handful of environmental textures, about five or six total, were created or retextured using AI tools. These are simple surface materials used to add extra detail to the environment. Every AI assisted texture was manually edited, cleaned up, and adjusted to fit the game's style.

Where AI Was Not Used
All of the core creative work in Golden Years is fully handcrafted. This includes:
Level design and layout
Atmosphere, lighting, and mood
Gameplay systems and mechanics
Environmental storytelling
Overall direction and feel of the game

No AI tools were used to design gameplay, build levels, or shape the game's atmosphere.

Store Page and Descriptions
Some of the text on the Steam store page may use AI assistance for drafting or polishing. All final wording is reviewed and edited to make sure it accurately represents the game.

Gameplay Logic
AI is not used for in game decision making, player behavior, or gameplay logic. Everything that affects how the game plays is traditionally designed and implemented.