Malice

Malice is a two-player co-op horror puzzle adventure that combines exploration, escape room-inspired challenges and Japanese-inspired supernatural terror. You and a partner play as travellers visiting a mysterious temple in modern-day Japan. After an earthquake opens a sinkhole and plunges you into darkness, you land before a foreboding mansion. To escape, you must venture deeper into it, solve puzzles and survive its malicious inhabitants.

Story and setting

The story spans multiple eras and takes you to different locations in an ancient Edo-era settlement, before ending in an unspeakable dimension where something more sinister waits. Across three chapters, hand-drawn cutscenes and character interactions reveal the history and secrets of the mansion and its inhabitants.

Explore and solve puzzles

You work together to find a way out of the sunken mansion. The puzzles include logical and lateral challenges, decryption puzzles and traditional mazes, all shaped by the two-player co-op format. Communication and cooperation are central to making progress.

Two-player co-op

Malice requires exactly two players: it cannot be played with more or fewer. You and your partner explore and face the mansion’s dangers together.

Atmosphere

The game uses audio and visuals to create a foreboding atmosphere. Its art combines realism and stylization, giving the environments an uncanny, dreamlike quality.