Kubi Meguri

Kubi Meguri is a pilgrimage through the afterlife as a headless ghost of a fallen warrior. You walk through a fog-drowned riverbed of the dead and an endless underworld, wearing hollow armor moved by drifting miasma. The severed heads you find determine which hell you reach next, while your answers to a girl called Utsuwa, the Vessel, also shape the journey.

The hells you visit

Each head opens different worlds, including an endless tatami room, a masquerade of beast-faced dancers, a drowned world, a graveyard of dead radio waves and a village of scarecrows. The pilgrimage brings serene Japanese scenery together with absurdities that fit neither era nor reason. Its horror relies on quiet unease rather than gore.

Choices and karma

In each hell, Utsuwa asks you a question. Your answer and the head you are wearing together determine which world comes next. You can answer sanely or madly; the more deranged your choices, the heavier your karma grows and the more the worlds warp. There is no goal or right ending. A map records each hell you visit, and filling enough of it brings “the End.” Fleeting death poems are murmured by the wandering dead.

Yomi Eight

Yomi Eight is a self-contained mode of Japanese spot-the-anomaly horror. You walk through a looping corridor and turn back if you notice something wrong, such as an unexpected face, a subtly changed sign or a shifting shadow. If nothing is amiss, you keep walking. Eight anomalies wait in the dark.