About This Demo

In the darkness, breathing is your only control.

Fading Edge is a side-scrolling adventure controlled by your breath. Inhale, and your steps slow; exhale, and you break into a run — but every breath wakes the nightmares waiting deeper below.

▎Breath Is Life and Death
Every inhale and exhale directly changes how fast you move. Pressure builds in the dark, and when it peaks, nightmares tear through the only three lives you have.

▎Nightmares Show No Mercy
Stationary, roaming, locking on, red — they are not level decoration, but hunters that think. Some dodge your gaze, some predict your path, some cannot be dispelled at all.

▎Echoes Are the Only Salvation
Echo shards lie scattered across the abyss. Touch them, and pressure resets, nightmares dissolve — but peace is always brief. Deeper down, more are waiting for you.

▎Four Abysses, Four Kinds of Forgetting
Forgetting (black and white), Obsession (cold blue), Letting Go (warm white), Origin (warm gold) — every abyss is a ruin of memory. The deeper you go, the lonelier it becomes.
This demo opens the first abyss, "Forgetting"; the full release will bring all four.

▎A Dream Within a Dream
Sometimes a swirling black hole appears in the dark. Step inside and another world opens — piece the shards back together, reclaim the memories stolen from you, or be trapped in the dream forever.

▎This demo includes
· The opening journey of the first abyss, "Forgetting" (about 320 meters down)
· The three core systems: breath, pressure and nightmares
· Dream Space — reassemble the shattered objects with your own hands
· The Echo Book — reclaim the memories stolen from you, one fragment at a time (10 in the demo)
· Three lives; the death summary shows your depth and your time
· Four languages: Simplified Chinese / English / Japanese / Russian

· High-contrast black-and-white hand-drawn style, rough brushstrokes
· A unique control scheme built entirely around breathing
· Three lives — death means starting over. Respect the dark.
· Fragmented storytelling; the full release adds a second playthrough for collectors

Stop breathing, and you die.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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Music and images created with AI assistance.