About This Demo

About This Demo

This Demo is a playable preview of "RETRIEVAL", designed to showcase the core gameplay and atmospheric experience. The Demo includes:

• Playable Chapter: A complete introductory experience featuring the first 3 looping levels of the game.

• Core Mechanics: Experience first-person exploration, interactive object examination, diary decryption, and terminal computer operations.

• Estimated Playtime: Approximately 7 to 15 minutes of immersive gameplay.

• Save Data: Progress made in this Demo is standalone and will not carry over to the full game.

• Language Support: This Demo currently supports Simplified Chinese only.

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Enter the Loop

You are trapped in a single, endlessly looping house. Every time you walk through the door, the environment shifts. The lighting changes, the atmosphere grows more oppressive, and reality begins to glitch. Pay attention to your surroundings, as each new loop spawns crucial clues in unexpected places.

Extract the Past

Scattered throughout the shifting rooms are Memory Fragments. Examine these objects closely and read them to extract crucial keywords. These physical fragments appear in chronological order, slowly building the foundation of what happened here.

Search for the Truth

Your only tool to break the cycle is an old desktop computer sitting in the room. Use the keywords you've extracted to search the terminal's database. Because the system limits you to four results per search, you must carefully read unlocked diaries to deduce new, hidden keywords and dive deeper into the system to trigger the next loop.

Key Features:

• Atmospheric Looping Gameplay: Experience a single environment that evolves and decays with every puzzle you solve.

• Keyword Deduction System: A unique text-based puzzle mechanic where reading comprehension and deductive reasoning unlock the path forward.

• Fragmented Narrative: Reconstruct a deeply psychological horror story by combining linear 3D memory fragments with non-linear 2D diary entries.

• Immersive Interface: Seamlessly transition between first-person 3D exploration and a fully interactive 2D desktop terminal.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

My game "RETRIEVAL" utilizes generative AI tools during its development process. Specifically:

Art Assets: Some promotional artwork, UI icons, and background posters/textures in the scene were generated with the assistance of AI tools (such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion) and were subsequently manually edited and polished by the development team.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

his game is a first-person psychological horror experience containing written depictions of suicide and self-harm (narrated through in-game diaries and logs found by the player). There are no graphic depictions of sexual acts or extreme violence.