Kadath

Kadath is an adventure game inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s literature. You investigate the disappearance of a Nazi train and one of its passengers, Elisa Schneider, during World War II—and its reappearance in the Himalayas 75 years later.

The lost train

At the height of its power, the Third Reich covered more than five million square kilometres. Its leaders travelled across the empire on luxurious armoured trains known as Sonderzüge. Historians agree that 25 were built by the end of World War II.

In November 1945, news emerged of an alleged 26th train, code-named Kadath. Nazi officers testified at the Nuremberg Trials that it disappeared in spring 1943 while travelling from the Wolf’s Lair in Rastenburg to Berlin with SS officers and their wives aboard. Investigators dismissed the story as an invention intended to protect the defendants’ runaway comrades. Warrants were issued, but none of the suspects was captured, and no trace of the train was found.

Elisa Schneider

In May 2016, Sherpa guides returning from an aborted Australian expedition to Annapurna found an exhausted woman. Severely hypothermic, she could communicate only a few German words before she died. She wore a 1940s German two-piece outfit with an NSDAP brooch, and documents in her purse named her as Elisa Schneider, born in Dachau in 1917. Yet she appeared to be no older than 25, and records identified her as a passenger on the missing train.

Episode 1 is fully playable.