Lobotomy

Lobotomy is a first-person psychological horror game inspired by true events and the history of mid-20th-century psychiatric practices. You play as James, a freelance journalist who enters a derelict psychiatric facility after his colleague William gives him a tip about inhumane medical experiments. As you explore its locked wards and decaying corridors, you search for evidence and a way out.

The facility

The story takes place at the notorious “Lobotomy” facility, which James infiltrates at night. Its history comes through the environment: blood-stained operating rooms, abandoned control panels and traces of patients long forgotten. The building is not as empty as its legends suggest, and flickering lights and shadows conceal threats.

Explore and survive

You carry a camera and a flashlight, but cannot fight; survival depends on your senses and your will. You document evidence with the camera, whose narrow field of view and distortions contribute to the found-footage style. Hidden files and environmental details reveal the truth behind the facility’s illegal experiments.

Puzzles and systems

You interact with retro control panels and old security systems, and solve mechanical puzzles to open restricted wings of the asylum. The bodycam perspective and gritty visual style add to the facility’s claustrophobic atmosphere.