Psychroma
/PSYCHROMA
is a narrative-driven side-scroller where you play as a digital medium. Confront the past by piecing together the broken memories of a cybernetic house, and exorcise the ghosts in the machine.
/PLAY AS A MEDIUM.
Investigate a haunted cybernetic house as a drifter with the ability to experience nonlinear time.
/FACE YOUR TRAUMA.
Regain your own memory of what brought you here and find out how to break the loop.
/FIGHT THE TERROR OF THE PAST.
Uncover the events of a harrowing psychological experiment gone wrong through fragmented memories.
Narrative
/THE HOUSE
The house has played host to many over the last hundred years, including a research facility for a little-known organization known as Cerulean.
Many secrets of the organization linger after a terrible fire, leaving a scar of trauma that was never resolved.
/THE THREAT
The current residents of the house are being held captive by a mysterious A.I. system, causing the memories of past residents to haunt the halls of the house.
/THE MYSTERY
You can't remember how you got here, and you are trapped inside. You must use a strange deck of memory cards holding the recorded memories of the past and present residents to manipulate time and navigate the house.
/THE MISSION
Exorcise the poltergeists that have taken over the house, free your trapped ally, and make it out with your mind intact.
Tap into the ghost of this cyberpunk AI, but be careful...
You may open your mind up to an unstable system, making it hard to tell what's real or even who you are. Can you find out what caused this house to fall into chaos without losing your sense of self and time? Can you escape, or maybe leave this place better than how you found it?
Gameplay
/TIME JUMPING.
-Use a cybernetic memory card system to navigate through time.
-Gain the perspective of others' stored memories.
-Gain access to new parts of the house.
/CLUE GATHERING.
Piece together clues from the past through reading personal logs of others.
/CYBER POSSESSION.
Allow the digital ghosts of the past to possess your body in order to descramble memories, solve puzzles, and see through their perspectives.
/COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD.
Use an interactive Ouija system to speak with ghosts and gather info that would otherwise be hidden.
Features
Original score.
Aurally rich, layered music composed, written and performed by Rowan Smith.
Exploration.
Traverse bespoke, cybernetically enhanced rooms, environments, and liminal spaces in a non-linear way.
Mind-bending visuals.
Unique art style, mixing pixel art and glitch art to create psychedelic imagery.
Trans, disabled and BIPOC representation.
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