Cross The Boundaries

Cross The Boundaries is a puzzle and exploration game with horror elements and visual novel-style storytelling. You play as Maribel Hearn, known as Merry, a psychology major who has seen ghosts and monsters since childhood. After she meets a strange woman one night, Merry explores dreamworld stages, collects items and solves puzzles while trying to stay alive and discover what the woman wants.

Characters and story

Merry is shy and usually speaks only with people she knows well. She is interested in myths, legends and the supernatural, and her experiences with supernatural beings are a secret. Since the strange woman first appeared, Merry has been having strange nightmares.

Renko is a smart, outgoing physics major who is interested in supernatural phenomena. She leads her university’s occult club, whose only members are Renko and Merry. They search for supernatural phenomena in a world that has forgotten them.

The strange woman is an urban-legend figure, translated as “the gap woman,” who stalks people from spaces too narrow for a person to fit through. She has a particular interest in Merry, and there is more to her than the legend suggests.

Explore and solve

You explore eerie dreamworlds and different stages, pick up items and solve puzzles to advance. As you progress, you learn more about the characters, including their fears and hopes, and about a forgotten fantasy in the modern world. The dreamworlds also hold dangers and unusual-looking monsters.

Cross The Boundaries is a Touhou fangame, but prior knowledge of the franchise is not needed.