.Redrum

.redruM is a short psychological horror game in which you play a crime scene photographer investigating gruesome murders and seeking to uncover the identity behind them. You walk through the scenes, take photographs and do your job. The game lasts around an hour.

Liminal spaces

Inspired by liminal spaces, backrooms and real crime scenes, the game places you in unsettling environments that blur the familiar and the strange. Their abandoned, undefined atmosphere evokes disorientation, isolation, anxiety and despair, as reality seems close to collapsing.

Violence and catharsis

The game uses violence as a means of emotional release and reflection on death, loss and human nature, rather than as an end in itself. Its levels draw on the idea of catharsis in Greek tragedy and the works of Aristotle and Shakespeare, using dramatic events to confront players with fear and accumulated tension.

An artistic story

.redruM presents itself as a work of contemporary art as well as a game. Its imagery of a killer photographing victims and a photographer documenting abandoned lives explores memory, the loss of dreams and the meaning of creating art today. The story is personal and intimate.