Gumnaam

Gumnaam is a survival horror game in which you play a police officer investigating several missing-person cases. People seem to have forgotten an unnamed village, though it still exists. While searching for evidence, you become one of the victims and find yourself trapped there, cut off from outside help by people whose memories may have been manipulated to make them believe you never existed. You must gather evidence and escape by performing a ritual, while trying to work out what is real, what is false and what belongs to the village’s past or myths.

The village and its threats

You are being watched by a woman who follows your progress with a smile, as enigmatic creatures chase you. Two monsters guard the village and pursue you if they see you. You cannot fight the invincible supernatural being; running and hiding are your only ways to survive. If the monsters catch you, they impair and eventually kill you, as they have other explorers who tried to escape. The game also includes jump scares.

Search and escape

You can pick up and interact with tools and objects including keys, locks, a camera, a torch, a flashlight, drawers, cabinets, candles, papers and other physical objects. Six papers bearing childish but spooky drawings provide clues relevant to the mystery. To escape, you must find six children’s toys placed around the village and put them in the correct positions at the ritual site.

An Indian village

The setting is an Indian village, where the supernatural creatures protect the secrecy of a forgotten, bloody playground.