Sweltering heat blankets the residential area, where a girl living in a graffiti-covered house still walks home alone from school every day. The player only needs to make her walk left, but she will continually encounter so-called "correct" people, threads of salvation hanging from the sky, and a mother holding a white umbrella; whether the outstretched hand represents salvation or a curse remains uncertain.
■ Game Introduction
The latest entry in the "Tsugunohi" series, a horror game where the everyday erodes into terror, is now available on Steam.
Controls remain the same; simply press the "←" key to move forward.
No complex controls required.
This title is a "return to roots" work, revisiting the art style and atmosphere of the early "Tsugunohi" games.
A residential area in the sweltering summer heat.
Hazy and bright, yet somehow making one reluctant to go home—that memory of the walk home from school.
A girl living in a house covered in graffiti walks home from school along this path today as well.
The "correct" people who appear every day.
Threads of salvation hanging down from the sky.
The mother holding a white umbrella says to the girl:
"I will protect you."——
As days pass, the once azure sky gradually sinks into crimson,
The familiar route home also crumbles little by little in silence.
This work adopts a chapter-based structure, continuing from Chapter 1 to the final chapter.
And at the end of the story, a choice awaits you:
"Take her hand / Don't take her hand."
While recapturing the original texture of the early works, it redepicts that fear in a contemporary way—
This is the new "Tsugunohi."
Please enjoy this story starting from this familiar route home.
1) Controls require only pressing the "←" key. With no complex operations, even players unfamiliar with games can easily pick it up.
2) In terms of art style and atmosphere, it returns to the origins of the early "Tsugunohi." The summer residential area in the sweltering heat evokes nostalgia while subtly inducing unease, carrying an atmosphere reminiscent of "Liminal Space" and "Dreamcore."
3) Walking the same route home day after day, the background, passersby, and even the color of the sky gradually change—once again presenting the series' origin point of "everyday erosion."
4) At the end of the story, a choice awaits the player: "Take her hand / Don't take her hand."
About the "Tsugunohi" Series
ImCyan has been creating numerous horror games as an independent developer for many years. Among these, the most representative work is the "Tsugunohi" series.
The greatest feature of the "Tsugunohi" series is its unique horror experience. Players continuously "walk left" along familiar routes home or to work, and through this repetition, the ordinary everyday gradually distorts, eventually becoming shrouded in deep fear—
Please experience the horror of the everyday becoming increasingly eerie and unsettling.
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