About This Demo

In 2004, three friends built a camera that could see and hear the dead. To test it, they traveled to the Mizukage Region, where a 7-year-old boy had vanished in his own home. Their findings changed the world forever.

Yōkai Crossing is a narrative-driven, first-person horror game with physics-based mechanics, inspired by 2000s J-Horror movies.

The Demo Story

You play as Ryo, a 19-year-old student who is trapped in a mysterious house where a boy vanished overnight. Use your special camera to explore the first floor of the house and find clues about what happened to the missing child, but beware of the Yōkai lurking in its halls.

How It Works

Yōkai Crossing is a physics-based horror game where you can interact with almost every object in the house, carry them across rooms, and position them where they belong to open doors and reveal new areas of the house.

Key items

Some items can be used to interact with the environment by helping you open doors or revealing secrets. Carry them across the house where you think they may fulfill their purpose.

No inventory

You can only carry one item at a time, while holding them you won’t be able to turn on/off your flashlight or open/close doors. Plan your movements accordingly.

The Yōkai

While you try to solve the mystery of the house, you will need to hide from the Yōkai haunting its halls. Every Yōkai has a different behavior and ways to deal with them, becoming more aggressive the more you progress into the game. 

No hand holding

Yōkai Crossing will give you all the clues and tools you need to solve every puzzle and mystery of the house and how to deal with its inhabitants, but it won’t contain waypoints, quest logs, or any written instructions to follow. It will be up to you to collect the information and connect the dots to uncover the truth.

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If you manage to find Kuuya Morisaki, or any clue of where he is, please contact the authorities and leave the house immediately.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

During the game, you may encounter notes with violent messages or real-world news about paranormal investigations and findings. You may also encounter abstract figures depicting deceased individuals. The Yokai may attack the player violently if it gets too close.