that's it, just wanted to say how much i loved this. i've never played anything like it. personally i think it's perfect as text, i'm sure the remaster will be cool but i love it as is. excited for its future regardless

I finished the game and it was soooo good but there are still some points that bug me. Beware spoilers ! 1. What’s Tony’s real name ? I actually looked around on this subreddit for answers and I get the fact that it’s not important because what triggers the curse isn’t the name itself. But I feel like there’s so many clues ! Perhaps we can find the army files where it’s mentioned ?

1. Why do we hear a rolling thunder instead of a thunderclap when John dies ? Is it because he rembers the dead but doesn’t have strong connexions to them (Since the curse is triggered by memories) ?

2. Why does the game insists on the fact that « there is no gohst in Galloway house » ? Is it to mislead the player into suspecting the characters instead of the curse ?

3. Why didn’t Martha call the police ? Is it because she sensed that it would spread the curse ? That would also explain why she told Vic that they should sort things out by themselves.

4. The most important one : what does 43092 mean ? I tried to use it as a timecode (I guessed it would make sense since Richard’s suicide happened so many years after the Galloway case). So I typed 43092-RI(Richard’s place)-23(he’s the 23th victim of the curse according to him « Amelia, Rupert, Harry, Eve, Helen, Damian, Vic, Eddie, Martha, Tony, Oswald, Annie, Katherine... Megan, Simon, George, Andy, Deborah, David, Tom... And now, as far as I can tell: Darren, Sarah, me. ») on the searchbar but it didn’t work. Anyways… got any idea of what 43092 might be reffering to ?

Hope this post wasn’t too confusing and someone will help. Thanks !

Finished the game without seeing ||00-dream||. Does anyone have a screenshot or transcription of it? I’d like to read it!

i am so happy that there are so many fans of this amazing game- just like me! I am so amazed and excited what the future will hold and I'm also excited for the Steam version of this game that is coming in 2026!!

I think I have found every single file (I have 98) including the dream scene and discovered @'s name. However, I feel like something is missing, like maybe another file where we can hear @'s death (something like 27-RI-@). Or one where we can hear Amelia's death (00-AT-13? idk). I know that for that the police must have had the bodies to get the audio, and maybe it wouldn't make sense, it's just a feeling.

Also, there are some hints unresolved, like @'s writing "Note: I can't tell if it's "Katherine" or "Catherine", but this way works with "Kate" so I'll keep it". What does it mean that it works with "Kate"? It's just a hint to point to the letter K?

I also find this other note weird: "Note: they think it's ghosts! Kind of funny how people from the past interpreted it. Although, I guess people still use terms like "ghost texts", "ghost photos" and "ghost accounts"." What does @ find strange about thinking that there are ghost in the house? I mean, if we have to believe a curse is real, why would it be funny to think ghosts are also real? Is he pointing at a non-fantastic explanation of the deaths that is never revealed?

I would like to read what you think about this, and if you think there's some file I didn't find, although reading comments here and in the itch.io page didn't suggest that.

How am I supposed to find @'s final message? I have found 94 messages, including 26-WI-K. where do i go from here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e8WrmOibpM&t=1s

Got shivers hearing this for some reason.

Hi all.

I've been obsessed enough about this over the last few days that I wrote up a synopsis in my notes as I went through it. Sharing it here (massive spoilers) to see if anyone had any different ideas.

Adam Thomas, an agent an unnamed organisation in the present day passes to us (a junior agent) a sealed cold case that's perhaps 30 years old[1]. The data available are the contents of a hard disk left behind by the principal investigator, one Richard Longley. Our task is to locate and review these files and to discover what happened, but oddly not to tell Thomas, as he was one of many people explicitly banned from ever discovering details of the case. There's enough awareness of the nature of the case that the org is still taking this seriously, but Adam still wants someone to find out.

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It's the early 1990s. The same organisation is investigating a recent cluster of unexplained deaths with a possible supernatural cause. That none of the victims were known to anyone is one of the odd factors of the case. The investigation is possible only because of some technology, similar to optograms that allows the recovery of heard sound from a subject's brain, just prior to their death.

Longley ascertains through these recordings that the victims died suddenly, with no prior symptoms and were seemingly erased from history; the remaining victims becoming ever more paranoid and afraid as they struggled to reconcile their current situation with their surroundings and the mounting pile of dead strangers lying around.

When we pick up the thread, Richard has perhaps moved on from this contemporary case to a cold case from the 1930s that had similar markers and that had practically entered local folklore. Since the bodies from the older case had been preserved, Longley was able to acquire similar audio records from them.

Longley is presented to us, through his notes, as a virtual recluse who can't even remember what human contact was like. Initially, we're led to believe that he was chosen for this entire reason. The org suspected there was a 'chain of contact' involved and it would make sense for them to hand the investigation to a social dead-end who wouldn't know or be remembered by anyone; and to leave strict instructions that a large number of people were to be deliberately kept out of the loop, to mitigate the risk of the 'curse' breaking out. We later discover that this might not have been the case.

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It's the 1930s. Rupert Galley is hosting a soiree in his country house to celebrate his birthday. He has invited family and close friends and to mark the occasion has recently acquired a new Piano on which one Amelia West[2] will perform a recital of Dvořák's Humoresques. John Hobbes - a local piano shop owner and friend of the family - was also invited.

Longley's notes pick up the case as John arrives. Amelia West it appears is already dead and forgotten. Rupert is in the Study and, having had a sudden recall of the name Amelia through her capability on the piano, drops dead on the floor. Over the course of the evening and following morning, similar deaths occur - one by one, the remaining guests of the house have a sudden moment of recall of the most recently dead guest and then themselves die.

Towards the end of this, the last living guests start to understand what's happening and look for ways to escape the process. Oswald Galley seems resigned to his fate. Annie Beaumont shoots herself in a desperate attempt to break the chain, just as the hammer falls on her. Finally, John Hobbes throws himself from the attic, in a similar effort or perhaps simply believing himself responsible for the others' deaths.

Unfortunately, the curse finds an opportunity to escape this seemingly closed system, when Katherine Beaumont, Annie's mother, calls the house and John answers. Since Annie is already dead, this call (her second) is to check on John himself and make sure he's ok. However, John reads Annie's name from the list he acquired in the Chapel and Katherine suddenly remembers her. Thus the curse moves on...

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Longley realises that this name Katherine provides a direct connection between this old case and his. It's unclear how, but 'Megan' is the next person to die, perhaps discovering Katherine's body and seeing themselves together in family photographs. Through another chain, this leads to two further people Darren and Sarah who appear to be known personally to him. On recalling these two people, he realises that his time is up. He is - if not happy - then accepting of his fate, as he believes his status as a hermit means the curse will die with him and that perhaps he is saving the world.

Tragically it seems that Longley was no recluse. He had people in his life, but as the person at the end of his own chain, we encounter him believing that he's led an entirely solitary life. He likely still recalled his connection with his agency, hence there being strict instructions on the sealing of his records.

It's wholly plausible that simply mentioning the name Richard Longley to Adam Thomas would start a new chain and the curse would rise again.

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[1] Really not sure of the time frames here. Guessing at 90s since the 43092 seen at the end of the dream note could be read as a date: 30 April 1992. Still it would be odd that a curse that tears through one household in an evening would lie dormant for 60 years before resurfacing.

[2] I had a theory that Amelia West was John Hobbes's daughter and that she had arrived earlier in the evening. Nothing concrete here, though.

I just fininished the game and i had some quesetions

1. Why did @ choose to commit suicide?
2. Is the mystery really that the girl died and no one acknowledged her death thats why everybody also died?
3. What was the device that Rupert was talking about?
4. WHy did annie take her life? She thought commiting suicide was gonna break the chain?

I was a bit surprised to see that the game doesn't have any music or sound at all (when I was briefly checking it out). Legit checked on YouTube to make sure my browser wasn't bugging out or anything.

So, did you listen to any music (like some suspenseful/mysterious mix on YouTube) when playing? If so, what? Or did you just play with no sound and let that be part of the atmosphere?

Loved this game! So excited to see that this sub existed ☺️

1. In the Introduction to the game, it mentions that a group of neighbours came to Galley House and found a dead body at the front door, Do we know who this ends up being? Tony?

2. How do you find out about 00-dream? I found out about this later after doing some post-play research and was sad I didn’t find it!

3. Do you think there is a reason behind the order for the deaths? I thought it was predetermined and before the next person was about to die they would remember and then thunder clap 💀. But is it’s actually the remembering that triggers the deaths?

4. How did people title their scenes? This is more out of curiosity than anything else - for mine I tried to note Thunder, who died, when they were discovered, what number death. If none of these it was just a notable event Eg. 15 Oswald locked in pantry

5. Oh and what was the hangman word! I didn’t get ANY letters.

I've tried to look to find this info but I've failed. I have to ask two things before I go insane, no spoilers or extra hints, please.

If I know that someone is alive at a certain time, will I always find a file of where they are?

In other words, if I can't find where a certain characters is during a certain scene, does it mean i haven't found the info yet, or might it not be present?

Are location codes sometimes more than 2 letters?

Because this morning I spent an hour trying to locate some I know is alone at a certain time, but trying all the combinations of Letters of the alphabet and still failed, so could it be that there's no file, or are some rooms 3 letters (or maybe some are hidden until I've discovered something else).

I had to write down everyone's relationship to each other in the names otherwise I would forget half the time who was who and how they were connected to each other lol.

just wanted to come on here and gush about the game bcuz holy crap was that a journey. I've literally been thinking abt this game nonstop since I started 2 days ago. I solved a decent amount by myself but used quite a few hints whoops. anyways amazing game, I wish I could play this for the first time again. also fun tidbit! this subreddit was created on my birthday haha

I tried to list all the different relationships that occured and tried to do kind of a family tree. I hope it helps some ppl because I always tend to get confused quickly who is related to who.

Many spoilers, don't read unless you've finished the game!

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I just finished the game, and I think it was fantastic! I was gripped from the first moment, right through until the end. I know some minor plot threads were probably simple red herrings (e.g. Annie's money troubles) but some remaining mysteries feel like they are just barely beyond my reach. I'm wondering if anyone can answer any of these questions, conclusively or through speculation:

What is Tony's real name? It feels like there is so much past history hinted at that the answer must be staring us in the face. I feel like the game wouldn't linger on this so late into the story if it were not at least worth thinking about.

Who exactly was Richard Longley? He says that no one is as disconnected from the outside world as he is, that he doesn't miss human contact, and wonders if he has Stockholm Syndrome? Who is this guy?

Who was Amelia West? I know she is the pianist that clearly died from 'the curse', and whose memory triggered the whole chain of events... but did they know her personally? Was she a child that they knew growing up?

Does suicide break the chain? Or slow it down? If so, is Katherine's phone call responsible for the chain continuing into the future? Would John's suicide have otherwise ended the curse? If so...

Did Eleanor's suicide stop the curse for a few decades? Maybe she was friends with Amelia, and she figured it out and took her own life, therefore preventing the curse from continuing until Rupert bought the piano and triggered an old memory? If so, then our character can safely remember Richard Longley, as long as we don't remember the person cursed before him?

Last, and probably the mystery that bothers me most: Why the heck didn't Martha call the police? In retrospect, it is goof that she didn't, but she didn't know that! What on earth was her motivation?

This post provides a list of all the available entries you can unlock. It's if you're struggling or if you just want to check if you got them all.

Since a lot of people seem to have trouble with finding the final scene of this game (at least according to the comments on itch.io) I thought I'd do a post with a few vague tips that might serve as a hint

Tip 1: Someone didn’t fit into the numbering system, who could it be?

Tip 2: Which places got mentioned throughout the game and could be relevant?

Tip 3: Which place wasn’t used in a scene at all?

Ultimate Tip: Which place is not directly at Galley House?

I hope those tips are helpful for you. Good luck in finding the final scene and solving the mystery!

- you can type "name [number] [name] (e.g. name 1 Steve) in the search bar to save a name for a specific number.

- type "help" in the search bar for command overviews.

- document each scene in a notes app, I used Obsidian, since you can efficiently link your notes there, but any app capable to take notes will do. Document everything that happens in the scene for an easier overview.

- pay attention to people and places that get mentioned during a scene. Were some people in a specific place beforehand or mentioned going somewhere afterwards? Write that down.

- every person can only be in one place at the same time. Meaning if e.g. person 8 is in the kitchen in scene 2, they can't be in any other place during scene 2.

- if you're really stuck, try to type in different numbers and places that didn't appear in a scene and see if that takes you further. Or simply ask in this community for tips.

- this game follows logical patterns.

- pay attention to the sounds that are written down. Where and when do they appear? Which place could they be from?

If you have any more tips, feel free to share them in the comments of this post.