01 / Day
Prepare
Select a psychic contract, review the recovery objective, study known monster behaviour, choose tools and a memory anchor, then plan a route.
Plan the hypothesis
Where We Leave Ourselves · PC / Steam · In development
Enter a dream with a plan. Escape before it learns you.
A psychological narrative horror game where a psychic prepares for outdoor liminal dream-worlds, recovers what is trapped, and survives monsters that react to attention and behaviour.
The hook
Interpret the environment to survive it. The dream watches how you move.
01 / The game
The environment is the threat, clue, and route.
Players recover objects, clues, people, and secrets while a changing dream tests what they noticed and how they behaved.
Dream threshold · Lumen Field
Interpretive hub
Evidence, memory, preparation, and the choice of where to descend next.
Living threshold
Crossing a layered biome means crossing into a different rule set.
02 / Core gameplay loop
Every night starts before the player enters it.
Preparation creates a hypothesis. The dream tests it. Evidence changes the next plan—and eventually the ending.
02 / Night
Enter
Cross into an outdoor liminal dream-zone—a waterfront café, ferry terminal, closed carnival, garden maze, or another unstable place.
Cross the threshold03 / Dream
Survive
Explore, observe, listen, and choose routes while reactive monsters learn from sight, sound, movement, waiting, repetition, and attention.
Read the active rule04 / Return
Extract
Complete the objective and reach an extraction point before lucidity collapses. Decode recovered evidence during the next day.
Carry evidence homeObserve → interpret → predict → test → revise. What the player confronts, overlooks, or avoids shapes future contracts and the final outcome.
03 / Survival pressure
Stay too long and the dream stops obeying you.
A declining lucidity meter creates constant pressure without reducing the experience to conventional combat.
Lucidity100 → 0
StableRead the space
DistortedRules shift
ExposedThreats intensify
CollapseThe mind gives way
Reactive monsters
Behaviour is the player’s loudest weapon—and greatest liability.
Planned monster types read different sensory and spatial signals. Survival depends on recognizing which rule is active.
Active ruleSight
Break the creature’s line of sight before it learns your direction.
Contract objectives
Enter with a concrete reason to risk the dream.
Recover a missing object
Locate a trapped person
Photograph a monster sigil
Activate wake anchors
Decode environmental evidence
04 / Visual identity
Horror beneath open skies.
Liminal zones create exposure, scale, and memorable silhouettes instead of relying on another dark corridor.
Garden / Whiteout
Threshold biome
Recurring house
Planned places include streets, gardens, stages, layered biomes, liminal outdoor zones, and choice-spaces that lead to multiple lives or locations.
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