Still Beneath The Soil

Still Beneath The Soil is a story driven mystery game with a lovecraftian twist. The year is 1837, you play as D. Shaw, a renowned physician summoned to investigate a strange disease plaguing the rural village of Dunbridge. 

Explore the dying town, uncover clues that litter the decrepit streets and question those who still remain.

Be thorrough, for you only get one day to solve the mysteries that plague the old town.

Although some truths may be better left buried.

• PS2-inspired environment and gameplay
• A text based mystery set in 19th century England
• Environment exploration revealing cryptic notes and haunting details
• Multiple NPCs to question and interact with
• Three possible endings

Controls

Use the WASD keys on your keyboard to move and E to interract when you can.

Use your mouse to look around.

Some zones work with a fixed camera. Use the A and D key to turn your character and W and S to move forward and backwards.

The M key will open the menu in game

Content Warning:
Still Beneath the Soil contains religious imagery and themes used as tools to create a tense and unsettling atmosphere. The game explores dark and mature subjects, including illness, isolation, and occult undertones. Please play with caution if you may find these elements distressing.

Still Beneath The Soil was created as my end-of-year project for the first year of my game design course at university. 

I built this game solo over the course of three weeks, writing, designing and developing it from the ground up. It was a challenge creating a narrative-driven game over such a short amount of time, and some things are definitely left unpolished, but i hope you will have as much fun exploring the quiet rot of Dunbridge as I had making it!

Once I have the time I may consider expanding upon the project, in the meantime feel free to leave me your thoughts and suggestions.

Thank you for giving it a shot!

Known Bugs

I have noticed a bug that triggers when players hit "space" while dialogue is active where the dialogue audio keeps repeating. This will get patched in the future when I have time! For now, know space isnt needed to play at all, so avoid it to ensure a better gaming experience!

In case you experience this bug, try engaging in a new dialogue or enter a new loadzone to fix it.