MISREMEMBER

A first-person psychological horror game. Something has rebuilt your childhood home from what you remember of it, and memory is lossy. Nothing ever changes while you watch it.

Two of five evenings are finished:

1. Almost. Dinner, a kitchen that drifts behind your back, a door that was not there, a wall you can only walk through with your eyes closed, and a watch that is still right.
2. Count. More doors than yesterday, all leading to your room, a table the Host keeps recounting, a pantry you can only enter walking backwards, and three napkin rings.

How the house works

Rooms are separate chunks, each in its own coordinates with its own baked light. The room you are in sits at the origin, and its neighbours are attached door to door and drawn only through their doorway with a stencil mask. That is what lets a doorway lead somewhere else the next time you open it.

Every doorway has three baked parts: a frame, a leaf and a veil (a patch of plain wall). Showing the veil removes the door. Some veils only stand while your eyes are open, and some only while you look at them. If one has to close in plain sight, the game blinks for you first. Changes wait in a queue of "drift slots" until a spot has been out of view long enough, and "anchors" such as the watch snap them back.

Rooms, doors and furniture come from one house.json read by both Blender, which builds the rooms and bakes a Cycles lightmap per room, and the game. Audio is synthesized. Unlike the other games in this repo, the wallpaper, floors, family photos and window views are images generated with Codex, which is why this single offline file is about 11 MB.

Controls & tips

• WASD walk, mouse look, E use
• Hold Space to close your eyes; some walls only open in the dark
• Nod or shake the mouse to answer a note, or press Y / N
• Headphones recommended; turn around often

Credits

By hahaliu1029, released under the Apache License 2.0.

MISREMEMBER is a horror game that runs on misdirection, so this guide explains the rules of the house without spoiling the evenings.

The rules of the house

• Nothing changes while you watch it. The house only rearranges itself when a spot has been out of view long enough. If a room feels wrong, it's because you turned your back on it. Turn around often.
• Doors are not reliable. A doorway can lead somewhere else the next time you open it, and a door can turn into plain wall (or back) while you aren't looking.
• Your eyes are a tool. Hold Space to close your eyes. Some walls only stand while your eyes are open, so in the dark you can walk through them. Others only stand while you look straight at them.
• The game blinks for you. If something has to change in plain sight, the screen blinks first. A blink you didn't make means something just moved.
• Anchors hold things in place. Certain objects, like the wristwatch, snap the house back to how it should be.

The two evenings

1. Almost: dinner, a kitchen that drifts behind your back, a door that wasn't there, a wall you can only pass with your eyes closed, and a watch that is still right.
2. Count: more doors than yesterday, all leading to your room, a table the Host keeps recounting, a pantry you can only enter walking backwards, and three napkin rings ("One each.").

If something won't open yet, the game says so ("Not yet. Something is waiting in the kitchen."). Go back to whatever it points at.

Answering notes

Some notes ask you a question. Nod (move the mouse up and down) for yes or shake (side to side) for no, or press Y / N.

Controls

Input	Action
W A S D	Walk
Mouse	Look
E	Use
Hold Space	Close your eyes
Nod / shake the mouse, or Y / N	Answer a note

Headphones are recommended.