Instant Anastasia

Instant Anastasia is a roguelite horror game set aboard a spaceship where a nightmare is consuming reality. The crew encountered it during cold sleep, leaving the vessel half-ruined. You move between the real world and the nightmare, searching for supplies and rescuing the remaining survivors. The nightmare is called “Heavy Dream,” a fatal risk humanity accepted in exchange for technological advancement.

Search the ship

The ship’s zones are procedurally generated and shift between runs. You follow distress calls and look for essential supplies and survivors, managing limited resources as you explore. Your tools include a gun, a repair kit and the Dream Shader, the only device that can reveal entities from the nightmare.

Read the signs

The enemy is invisible in reality, but its presence causes clues such as monitor malfunctions, flickering lights, radio static, sudden temperature changes, malfunctioning doors and groaning corpses. You must use these signs to locate the threat.

Risk the mindscape

If the enemy gets too close, it can drag you into the nightmare world, where enemies become visible. You can stay and hunt or flee back to reality, weighing the situation and your resources; if your sanity reaches zero, the game ends. You also have to balance repair, combat and exploration aboard the collapsing ship, where supplies are nearly gone and each decision can mean life or death.