Eternal Threads

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game about manipulating time, choices and their consequences. As an operative sent to fix corruption in the timestream, you travel to North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire. You cannot simply stop the fire; instead, you change the choices the housemates make during the week beforehand so they all survive.

Explore the timeline

You can freely explore the seven-day timeline before the fire, watching and changing significant events as often as you like and in any order. Minor changes can move objects around the house or reveal stories and secrets. Major changes rewrite the timeline by altering existing events, adding new ones or replacing events entirely. You move back and forth through the week, combining the effects of decisions made at different moments to save all six housemates.

Each housemate can be saved in multiple ways, and each outcome has a profound effect on their future lives. The puzzle is not only to find a way to save them, but to seek the best possible outcome for everyone.

Follow the story your way

The story follows six main characters through decisions across multiple timelines. You can choose how to explore it:

• Focus on one character’s storyline, following their choices across timelines before returning to the start to follow another.
• Begin with the final outcomes and work backwards to determine their causes.
• Follow events in chronological order, watching the week unfold and changing decisions as they arise.

You can revisit any event to watch or change it again, including when you want to check what happened or reconsider the consequences of a decision.

The house after the fire

You establish a temporary base in the house mere hours after the fire. From there, you watch past events play out as ghostly scenes, while the smoke- and fire-damaged house remains a reminder of what is to come. As you alter the past, the environment can reset to reflect those changes: objects may appear or move, and the contents of rooms can change substantially.