About This Demo

Welcome to a nightmare you cannot wake from.

Lucy is a girl who has forgotten even who she is. In a cabin deep in the woods, watched over by Teddy the bear and Thelma the rabbit, she is trapped in a nightmare that will not end. If she can escape this place and reach the distant twin towers, perhaps she will finally wake.

Lucy's Nightmare is a psychological horror platformer where a charming surface and a cruel truth exist side by side. You'll explore a colorful nightmare filled with playful monsters — but the moments where Lucy's truth surfaces wear an entirely different face. A carefully woven narrative peels back the fairy tale, one layer at a time.

● A World With Two Faces
Leap through whimsical nightmare stages, then come face to face with a dense, grounded psychological thriller in the cutscenes where the truth is revealed.

● A Journey to Reclaim Memory
The scattered diamonds are fragments of the reality Lucy has lost. The more you collect, the more you learn about who she is — and what she is running from.

● A World Crafted by Hand
Meet characters drawn pixel by pixel by the developer, across stages steeped in the spirit of a dark fairy tale.

● Full Support for 10 Languages
Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), German, French, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

This demo is the prologue to the story. See for yourself where Lucy's nightmare leads.

A game by Jeon Yeon Jun
NationwideSoftware

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some of the background artwork in this game was created with the assistance of generative AI tools. The characters and other primary art were hand-drawn pixel by pixel by the developer, while other engine and platform elements make use of open-source assets.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This psychological horror game contains mature content, including: realistic violence and blood, depictions of bodily harm, and scenes of character death and murder. Mental illness, drug addiction, and the abuse of medication and alcohol are central narrative themes. The game includes implied references to suicide and one scene that implies sexual violence (conveyed through staging and scene transitions — nothing explicit is shown). It also features intense horror sequences, flashing effects, and imagery some may find disturbing. These themes serve the game's psychological narrative and are neither glamorized nor endorsed. Player discretion is advised.