Nulla Via

Nulla Via is a World War II psychological horror game about Wassim, a young historian drawn into the buried history of a massacre in an isolated French village. After a friend photographs him with an old military camera obscura found among forgotten relics, Wassim begins having nightmares that pull him into a distorted version of the past. There, he sees shadowy figures roaming ruined streets and witnesses executions, disappearances and atrocities committed by SS soldiers against civilians trapped in the village.

Wassim’s visions

Wassim’s nightmares repeatedly show Marcel, a villager driven mad after finding his murdered family, and Leonarda, whose final days became part of the town’s hidden history. Each time he wakes, Wassim feels weaker and more exhausted, while wartime objects appear in his apartment and voices echo through empty rooms. As the boundary between past and present breaks down, he turns to alcohol and tries to understand why the visions are haunting him.

The camera is tied to the tragedy: one of the victims was photographed with it moments after witnessing the massacre of his family. It has carried the dead’s final echoes ever since, binding itself to people connected to the forgotten events. Wassim returns to the village’s real ruins, where visions and fragments of the past guide him to the victims’ remains, abandoned beneath the town for decades. By revealing their identities and bringing their story to light, he learns that the dead seek to be remembered.

Explore the village

You investigate a preserved war ruin through abandoned homes, forests, underground shelters, churches and mass graves. Shadowy echoes replay moments of violence and despair, while the village’s hidden history connects to Marcel, Leonarda and the massacre buried beneath it. The experience explores civilian massacres and erased identities, psychological collapse and inherited trauma, obsession with forgotten history, and the fear of losing yourself to memories that are not your own.

Fight the dead

Wassim can defend himself with World War II weapons recovered throughout the village, including Lugers, shotguns and STG44 machineguns. He also carries the mysterious camera obscura, which can reveal hidden entities, expose invisible presences in darkness and ruined structures, and damage supernatural manifestations. You combine firearms and light to survive hostile apparitions, but some entities cannot always be destroyed and must be escaped.