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Awakeness is a first-person psychological horror set in Barzakh, a higher layer of reality where space and emotion distort. Explore looping corridors, solve subtle environmental puzzles, and evade an unseen presence using stealth and light.
Awakeness is a first-person psychological horror game set within Barzakh — a higher layer of reality that exists between states of being, where familiar spaces obey unfamiliar rules.
You awaken as Yalda, alone inside an immense, distorted environment that feels unsettlingly close to reality, yet fundamentally wrong. There are no explanations, no guidance, and no certainty that escape is possible. Your only goal is simple: find a way out.
Barzakh resembles the logic of dreams, but it is not one. It is a place where space folds inward, memory leaves physical traces, and emotions take form.
The world appears as a vast, decaying, house-like structure — endless corridors, repeated rooms, and doors that lead to places that should not exist. Paths loop back on themselves. Gravity shifts without warning. The environment subtly reacts to your presence, as if aware that you do not belong.
Awakeness does not follow traditional levels. The world is semi-linear, built from interconnected spaces that gradually unlock as you explore, observe, and understand Barzakh’s rules.
Progression is driven by environmental and perception-based puzzles — interpreting space, symbols, movement, and cause-and-effect within a reality that resists logic. Familiar rooms may change when revisited, and solutions are rarely explicit.
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You are completely alone — or so it seems.
There is no combat, no allies, and no dialogue to rely on. Deep within Barzakh exists a hostile presence, bound to the structure itself. Avoidance, careful movement, and light are your only defenses.
At a critical moment, survival depends on stealing something valuable from this presence and escaping unseen. Failure does not mean death — it means being trapped, lost within endless darkness.
Yalda is intentionally undefined. Her fear, hesitation, and resolve are shaped entirely by the player’s actions. Awakeness avoids direct exposition, allowing meaning to emerge through atmosphere, sound design, environmental storytelling, and emotional tension.
Awakeness is about discomfort, solitude, and the quiet terror of being awake in a place that should not exist.
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