Ecstatica

Ecstatica is a survival-horror adventure set in Tirich, a medieval village where demons, goblins, a minotaur and a werewolf threaten your life. After stopping for water, you find yourself trapped there and must survive its encounters and solve puzzles to free yourself and the village from mortal danger. The game mixes horror with absurd British humour, and puzzles rather than combat drive progress.

Explore Tirich

You guide a male or female protagonist through fixed-camera scenes in a rounded 3D world rendered entirely from ellipsoids. The game has no health bar, map, quest log, prompts or other UI. It features over 200 animated sequences, detailed 3D backgrounds, cinematic cuts and camera angles.

Graphics and sound

The digital release offers three graphics modes: DOS, based on the original 1994 release; Windows 95, based on the 1997 re-release; and Software, which renders the game in real time at high resolution. You can switch modes while playing to compare them. The game runs on the CPU alone, and includes three soundtrack versions, whose tracks sound different depending on the setting.

Optional settings include “Shaking Legs,” which restores the leg jitter from the DOS version, and “DOS Ceilings,” which brings back the original release’s lower door frames and ceilings. The release also runs on modern hardware and includes updated controls and controller support.