Descend Together — co-op, clearer investigations and a new voice

Play solo or bring up to three friends. Recover genuine signals, repair the escape route and learn which rules keep each hunter away. Use your scanner to avoid false radios and your emergency anchor to buy twelve seconds when a chase gets too close.

The latest update adds clearer co-op joining, separate player spawns, better guidance for optional investigations and a new recorded story voice. Everyone in an online room needs their own copy and the latest version.

Dead Air — the Halloween update

Follow the static in the Yellow Rooms to a haunted shortwave radio. Recover its transmission to earn a permanent orange field suit and carved brass charm, with pumpkin lanterns lighting the descent.

The Dead Air encounter and reward stay available after Halloween. Seasonal reward ownership supports Steam Cloud backup when enabled.

About This Game

Get your team out of the rooms

Clipped Reality is a first-person horror game for solo players and teams of 2–4. Search unsettling rooms for genuine survey radios, use your scanner to spot false signals, and repair the way out before the level closes around you. Every signal you recover brings you closer to escape—and draws more attention from the hunter.

Four hunters. Four ways to survive.

• The Hound chases by sight. Break its line of sight and keep moving.
• The Angel moves when nobody is watching. Keep your eyes on it—or trust a teammate to watch.
• The Stalker listens for your movement. Your footsteps can give you away.
• The Barber becomes more dangerous when you answer a ringing phone. You have to pick up before you can complete the escape route.

Bring friends—or face the descent alone

Host or join an online co-op room with an invite code. Share the danger, keep a teammate watching the Angel, and reconnect downed surveyors. Optional proximity voice chat lets you talk to nearby teammates; microphone use is opt-in and is never recorded by the game.

Solo play is available throughout the campaign. Online co-op supports 2–4 players; each player needs their own copy and the latest game version.

Use your field kit. Choose your risks.

• Scan radios before collecting them: false signals cost sanity and alert the threat.
• Synchronize relay panels and hold breaker repairs while something listens.
• Throw an emergency anchor to pin a hunter for twelve seconds and make room to escape.
• Bank your score between levels or push deeper for more at risk.

Seven levels to learn and replay

Descend through the Yellow Rooms, the Dark, the Barber Shop, the Mirror Maze and beyond. Seeded layouts can be learned, shared and replayed, with personal bests for each seed and difficulty.

Optional investigations uncover recordings from the surveyors who came before you. Follow their story or focus on the escape route. At the Exit terminal, choose what leaves the rooms with you: a warning, a severed signal, or silence.

Dead Air: follow the static

A haunted shortwave radio waits in the Yellow Rooms. Recover its transmission to earn Jack-o’-Signal: a permanent orange field suit, warm signal palette and carved brass charm. The encounter and reward remain available after Halloween.

Choose your difficulty and comfort settings

Four difficulties include a forgiving Easy mode with longer sprint and torch endurance, gentler scares and lighter sanity pressure. Adjust camera shake, reduced effects and story narration; revisit the tutorial or skip the opening films.

Content notes

The game contains horror themes, stalking/chase tension, jump scares, flashing lights / screen flicker, darkness, unsettling audio, and death/failure states. A photosensitivity / epilepsy warning is shown on every launch. It does not currently contain gore or sexual content.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some pre-rendered visual assets in Clipped Reality (including certain monster, prop, scare, cinematic and store marketing images) were created or assisted with generative AI tools, then selected, edited and integrated by the developer. Story narration, including the opening film and recovered recordings, uses pre-generated Fish Audio recordings with an original synthetic voice. These finished audio files are bundled with the game. Other ambience and sound effects use original deterministic synthesis. Level layouts use traditional seeded procedural generation, and story text and Echo Logs are scripted content. The game does not generate new images, audio or narrative during gameplay and does not connect to external AI services while you play.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game contains horror themes, stalking/chase tension, jump scares, darkness, unsettling audio, and death/failure states. It does not currently contain gore or sexual content.