Monsters in the Dark
A cinematic action platformer where a single torch shapes combat, movement, and survival. Venture into a world beyond human reach and face monsters born from darkness, and yourself. Are you willing to step beyond the darkness to save someone you love?
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A cinematic action platformer where a single torch shapes combat, movement, and survival. Venture into a world beyond human reach and face monsters born from darkness, and yourself. Are you willing to step beyond the darkness to save someone you love?
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About This Game
DEMO ANNOUNCMENT
Steam demo releases June 2026.
May the light favour the courageous.
About the Game
“Anna… do you believe in monsters?”
Monsters in the Dark is a cinematic action platformer set in The Great Beyond, a fractured world beyond human reach, where darkness isn’t just around you… it’s within you.
Step into the role of Anna, and venture through a chaotic, shifting unfamiliar world to save someone you love.
How far are you willing to go… when the only thing human is you?
A HAND-DRAWN NIGHTMARE
Experience a world built in a raw, scribbled art style, inspired by the way children draw what they don’t understand.
Uneven lines, distorted forms, alive and unstable...
A TORCH THAT DEFINES EVERYTHING
Use your torch as you platform and fight your way through the unknown.
Efficiently use the different forms of torch as you:
Find your path.
Unveil hidden secrets.
Find weakness of monsters and destroy it.
Take control over the world with it's on rules.
A WORLD THAT WATCHES BACK
Explore the fragmented regions of The Great Beyond, each with its own rules, dangers, and truths:
The Land of λ̶̙̄⟁Ẋ̴̦́Ж̷̗̅⛧Ẍ̴̞͊
The λ̶̙̄⟁Ẋ̴̦́Ж̷̗̅⛧Ẍ Caves
The Gateways to Ӝ̶̗́⛧λ̶̙̄Ẍ⟁Ẋ̴̦́
And many more...
Nothing stays consistent. When you think you have figured it out, the world changes, and so does the rules.
MONSTERS WITH PURPOSE
Face over 30+ unique entities, each with distinct behaviors, weaknesses, and intentions.
Will you be able to defeat the one's who knows the place like the back of their hand?
To survive, you’ll need to learn from them, not just fight them.
THE ONE THAT CONTROLS IT ALL
Somewhere, lurking in the shadows, is someone who knows your every move.
Do you have the tendency to survive with the one who make it's own rules.
Are you wilingly to stand up again someone who is not only stronger than you, but is aware of the same...
