About This Game

Henry, a novel alchemist with not long left to live, ventures into the last remaining chance to reunite with the family that left him for an Antarctic research base to create the legendary cure-all. Upon arrival, Henry discovers that their scientific hubris has birthed a tragic monstrosity. Survival in this frozen, isolated world requires mastering the ancient art of alchemy, managing your lantern's dying light, and outmatching an intelligent predator that hunts your every sound.

Key Features

• Intelligent Monster AI: Face a predator that listens, learns, and reacts to your alchemical actions and movements.

• Master the Alchemical Arts: Utilize a comprehensive crafting system to create customized spells. Combine primary ingredients with multiple modifiers to tailor your "mutes" for defense or exploration of your carefully crafted surroundings.

• Resource Management: What you can find and make is your lifeline. Use all that you can to escape the dangers that lurk in the dark, including crafting tools, utilizing resources, and employing stealth tactics to navigate your environment safely.

• Atmospheric Environmental Storytelling: Piece together the tragic history of the base through the world around you as you explore the tattered remains of labs and failed experiments.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

An icicle goes through a worker's head, killing him. Description of blood and damage to the cranium. Throughout, there is a general monster threat and pursuit.

The player is hunted and chased by a relentless monster. Dark, claustrophobic environments, corpses on beds, bones and carcasses, and a general air of dread.

Unethical human experimentation, including soul-binding, experimentation on living creatures, and pursuit of immortality through morally questionable means.

The story deals with death and bodily transformation and flowers growing out of corpses and environmental rot.

One of the mother’s letters refers to the father hitting her for the first time.

Neglect of a sick child by the parents, a terminal disease, and an ambiguous ending that leaves the player wondering if they were helpful or harmful.