This is a folk horror game set along the Yangtze River in early 20th-century China. Return to a haunted river town, investigate your mother’s death, and face rituals, drowned secrets, and an inhuman presence beneath the water. Your choices will decide who survives—and how the story ends.

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About This Game

Sunken is an interactive mystery inspired by Chinese folk horror.

You play as Shen Du, the last heir to a family of river exorcists. Guided by a mysterious photograph, he returns to his hometown to investigate his mother’s death and a case everyone has tried to forget.

A red bridal gown drifts downstream. Children’s songs echo through empty reeds. Pale villagers smile while hiding the truth.

Beneath the muddy river, something long buried is beginning to awaken.

Twenty years ago, Shen Du’s mother died inside a temple that vanished soon afterward.

Now the temple has appeared again.

What begins with the body of a man frightened to death leads Shen Du into a series of disturbing cases: sacrificed brides, imprisoned women, human experiments, and villages awaiting destruction.

Every case points to the same ancient ritual.

The closer Shen Du gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that something beyond human understanding is watching from beneath the river.

What does it want—and what price will it demand?

Ordinary sight reveals only surface clues. Shen Du’s supernatural vision exposes traces left by the dead and horrors hidden from the living.

But every use comes at a cost.

How much of your sanity will you sacrifice for the truth?

Use inherited ritual tools to identify supernatural threats, solve mysteries, and survive encounters with the unknown. Choose carefully—the wrong tool may cost you your life.

Explore ferries, mortuaries, ancestral halls, underwater temples, and abandoned altars. Investigation, puzzles, chases, stealth, and combat unfold throughout the story.

Danger will not wait while you decide.

Who will you save? Who will you abandon? Who will you trust—or deceive?

Your choices will change relationships, reshape key events, and determine the ending. If everything goes wrong, return to a crucial moment, choose another path, and discover where it leads.

Shen Du is not a fearless monster hunter.

He is a lonely young man burdened with an ability he never asked for—and the only person unwilling to look away.

Sunken is a story about secrets, obsession, and sacrifice.

How much must one man lose to bring the forgotten truth back to the surface?

About NOX Labs

NOX Labs creates cinematic interactive stories that combine live-action filmmaking, player choice, and emerging AI technology.

Our team brings together experienced writers, filmmakers, and game developers across mystery, science fiction, romance, and other genres.

Through immersive storytelling and meaningful choices, we aim to create stories that cross cultural boundaries—and let every player become part of them.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI helped us create parts of this game, including some visuals, audio and music. Everything it produced was reviewed and refined by our team, and the creative and design decisions are always ours. We never used player data to train any model.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This psychological horror/mystery interactive movie contains supernatural horror, violence and gore, corpses, and other mature themes. Viewer discretion is advised.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 8 or later
    • Processor: Intel Core i3 or AMD equivalent
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 20 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or better
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 530 / AMD Radeon Vega 8 or better
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 20 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.