A downloadable game for Windows

What is this?

Immanence is a 2D psychological thriller and a spiritual successor to one of the previous games developed by Cat In A Jar Games — Nyctophilia. This is a personal project developed by one person. This game keeps the main features of its predecessor while raising the bar for quality.

Features

  • Dark and surreal storytelling.
  • Creative puzzles and gameplay situations.
  • Immersive soundtrack that features tracks created by artists Nyctophiliac, Gouldenberg, Круги под глазами.
  • Simple pixel art visual style combined with lighting and post-processing techniques.

Immanence is a small free adventure, full walkthrough takes approximately 1-2 hours.

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Release date Jan 25, 2020
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorCatInAJar
GenreAdventure
Made withUnity, Aseprite
TagsDark, Horror, immanence, Narrative, Pixel Art, Psychological Horror, Short, Story Rich, Surreal, Thriller
Code licenseMIT License
Asset licenseCreative Commons Attribution v4.0 International
Average sessionAbout an hour
LanguagesEnglish, Russian
InputsMouse
LinksSteam, Twitter/X, Steam, YouTube

Download

Download
Immanence.zip 98 MB

Development log

Comments

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Old school pixelated graphics? Check. Mind-mangling logic puzzles? Check. An intricate, thought-provoking story the brings forth feelings of dread and death and disaster? Check check!

Immanence really is a unique experience, combining classic point and click gaming with modern takes on the futility of life, a future controlled by technology and basically being bereft of control. The whole thing plays beautifully, and flows wonderfully between standard puzzle-solving mechanics and off-the-wall additions to the genre like the use of your phone to access particular elements of gameplay and also connect with social media and your contacts to try and piece together exactly what is going on.

There's also a few wonderfully well-placed scary moments in the game too that require quick reflexes to get out of, and the autosave function isn't so harsh that you lose tonnes of what you've done if you fail once or twice (although it would be nice to have the option to save whenever you need to, it's not something that ruined the game being unable to do).

Massive thumbs up from me, I really enjoyed the whole thing and it really left me in a state of self-reflection (and a tiny bit of confusion). Great stuff, really recommend it to anyone who loves old fashioned 2D point and click games and fancies being a bit philosophical!

This game was interesting to play. I  got stuck at finding the last substation to activate the terminal but it did a good job at making you feel uneasy and wondering what's going to be behind the next door. My only suggestion would be to offer an in game music audio control (I can of course lower the volumn on my end, but when recording a video and doing commentary, it can really have a bad impact). Just a suggestion though, overall it was well done.