Dark Pals

Dark Pals is a first-person exploration and puzzle game set in an abandoned children’s mental health facility. You explore its unsettling rooms, solve environmental and logic-based puzzles with an Ink Blaster, and evade the facility’s mascots as you uncover what happened there and why the place seems to know you.

The facility

Once bright and welcoming, the facility is now warped by time, neglect and forgotten memories. Your journey begins in a cheerful lobby, then leads through empty halls where catchy, irritating tunes echo and bright colours conceal unsettling truths. Some rooms change their layout as you explore.

Puzzles and mascots

Progress depends on perception as well as escape. Using your toy paint gun, you solve puzzles that challenge your expectations and sense of reality; survival may require putting aside your morals and sense of self-preservation.

The facility’s colourful but horrifying mascots each hide a darker purpose. They include Chompy Chasey, a dog with a comically large head and deadly teeth, and Binky Drinky, who lurks in the forgotten halls. Puzzles and encounters bring you closer to the truth about who you are and why the facility still haunts you.