A VHS-themed psychological horror where each tape drags you into a new nightmare. Explore haunted hospitals, schools, forests, and liminal spaces. Solve puzzles, uncover the Archivist’s secrets, and survive a house that grows darker with every tape you watch.
Release Date:
Oct 24, 2025
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About This Demo

Overview:
The Archivist Demo offers a glimpse into the eerie and immersive world of analog horror. Step into the shoes of a journalist who stumbles upon a desolate wooden house tied to mysterious VHS tapes. Each tape you uncover transports you into a different, twisted reality — from abandoned hospitals to forgotten forests. With every recording watched, the house itself grows more alive... and more hostile.

This demo showcases the core mechanics and atmosphere of the full game: slow-burn psychological horror, exploration, puzzle-solving, and a unique VHS-glitch visual style. Your only tools are your flashlight, your courage, and your curiosity.

Design:
This demo highlights the foundational gameplay loop — finding tapes, watching them, and returning to the house as paranormal events intensify. It also gives players a taste of the game’s environmental storytelling, tension-building sound design, and visual presentation designed to evoke dread through minimalism and realism.

Localization:
The demo is currently available in English. Additional languages will be added in future updates.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Since it's a horror game there might be acts of torture, corpses covered or uncovered, blood and other elements that might be disturbing for some people and is inappropriate for people who are not adults.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel i5 9th Gen
    • Memory: 16 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
    • Storage: 4 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11
    • Processor: Intel i7 12th Gen
    • Memory: 16 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
    • Storage: 4 GB available space
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