Heliophobia

Heliophobia is a first-person horror and mystery adventure told through a surreal, non-linear narrative. You wake on an empty plane with one task: kill the person with the initials J.R. Your memories remain just out of reach as grotesque humanoid creatures pursue you, crime syndicates and shadowy organizations plot behind closed doors, and waking nightmares disrupt your sense of reality.

The city and its dangers

You sneak, hide and run from monsters and other threats across a vast nocturnal metropolis. Its locations include claustrophobic alleyways, labyrinthine tunnels and dreary establishments. Glitch effects make the world feel slightly removed from normality and act as a sixth sense for nearby dangers; you can use them to your advantage or disable them.

Explore and investigate

As you explore, you uncover secrets and piece together fragments of an interwoven story. Story sections branch and unlock in non-chronological order, and you can return to completed sections to investigate further. Many levels offer multiple routes or different ways to solve puzzles.

Exploration, puzzle-solving and world-building sections provide breaks between encounters built around fear and tension. Challenges vary in their settings, formats and rules, so sections do not all play the same way.