A downloadable Demo for Windows and Linux

In ESSOMENIC, you play a Doctor that performs surgery on the memories of patients. Your task is to keep them alive in order to explore as much of their headspace as possible. For this, the Doctor uses retro, crude machinery to navigate their memories and dreams.

SURGERY

  • Navigate a patient's memories; find their emotional attachments in forms of items
  • Communicate with the patient and discover their thoughts
  • Perform maintenance on any failing systems to keep the procedure running.
  • Get points based on your efficiency.

EXPLORE

  • Unlock new areas or secrets, progress the narrative

Controls

A mouse (or trackpad) and keyboard are required. Headphones are recommended.

Use A and to turn when in a focused view. Alternatively, hover and left mouse click at the borders of your screen to turn.

W A S D for walking controls, as well as movement within certain equipment. Spacebar to jump, and hold Shift to sprint.

Use your mouse or trackpad to look around.

Interactable objects and equipment (highlighted in yellow) can be interacted with using E, and you can exit their focused view using Spacebar

Left mouse click to operate the equipment. You may also hover your mouse over certain objects, and then left mouse click to select them. 

Dialogue can be progressed by left mouse click, or the Enter or Spacebar keys. Dialogue options can be selected by left mouse click, or by Arrow Keys followed by Enter.


Credits

Domenico "Buddha" Crovetto - Game Design, Programming, Writing

Edvin Skog - Game Design, Programming,  Project Management

Parsa Fadaeikhedmat - 3D Art, Audio Design, Game Design

Anna Brannen - Project Management, Game Design, Writing

Additional 3D Art
Klara Aune

Additional 2D Art 
Adrian Danielsson

Other Attributions
Footsteps on Shower Room Floor Tiles Wearing Brogues.wav by F.M.Audio -- https://freesound.org/s/555296/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Metal door knocking by BloodPixelHero -- https://freesound.org/s/621230/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

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Published 3 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Release date 3 days ago
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorBRYGD Interactive
GenreAdventure
Made withBlender, Godot
TagsAtmospheric, Horror, Liminal space, Retro, secrets
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
AccessibilityInteractive tutorial

Download

Download
ESSOMENIC Demo [PC Build 0.1a2] 115 MB
Download
ESSOMENIC Demo [Linux Build 0.1a2] 108 MB

Install instructions

1. Extract the compressed file.

2. Run the ESSOMENIC executable within it.

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