About This Demo

A free demo — approximately 30 minutes of play

Experience a portion of Twelve Knots. Explore its unsettling world, examine objects, and follow clues through puzzles rooted in Korean folklore. Playtime varies with exploration and puzzle-solving.

Twelve Knots is a story-driven 2D Korean folk horror adventure. Explore, investigate, and uncover what lies beneath familiar places.

Story

On the day of his great-grandfather’s ancestral rite, high school student Seo Do-gyeong sets off for school as usual. As he passes the village’s ancient dangsan tree—a sacred guardian tree—the old brass bell he has carried since childhood rings for the very first time.

From that moment on, the familiar halls of his school begin to twist into something strange. Classrooms emptied of students. An old videotape that should not exist within the school. Announcements calling Do-gyeong by another name. The more desperately he searches for a way home, the further the path leads him away from the school—and toward a village of the dead beyond the dangsan tree.

Gameplay

Ring the brass bell to reveal traces hidden beneath ordinary surroundings. Examine ominous objects, uncover clues, and solve puzzles tied to ancestral rites and forgotten rituals. As Do-gyeong ventures deeper, the buried history of his family slowly comes to light.

Features

Observe and investigate — Examine objects and search your surroundings for clues to your next step.

A bell that reveals hidden traces — Ring an old brass bell to uncover what ordinary surroundings conceal.

Puzzles rooted in rituals — Connect clues and interact with objects to solve puzzles inspired by ancestral rites and forgotten ceremonies.

Supernatural threats — Face unsettling presences and escape through dark corridors. Includes graphic violence, blood, and bodily injury.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some visual art assets in this game were created or enhanced using generative AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the development team. Generative AI is not used during gameplay, and players cannot create or upload AI-generated content in the game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains psychological horror, frightening scenes, graphic violence, blood, gore, bodily injury, corpses, depictions of death, and profanity. It includes Korean folklore-inspired supernatural imagery. There is no sexual content or gambling.