Palmyra Orphanage

Palmyra Orphanage is a paranormal first-person horror game set in a remote corner of post-Soviet Russia. You return to the orphanage where you were separated from your missing brother, searching its empty rooms for documents about his relocation. The children’s home survived the country’s collapse and the fever of the nineties, but recently all mentions of it vanished from the archives.

The orphanage

As you explore the crumbling building, ghostly footsteps echo through the corridors. Shadows cry out for help and try to pull you into their memories and deaths. The orphanage belongs to the principal, who wanders its halls, waits for you and hates you. The building’s layout is based on existing blueprints of Russian orphanages, with rooms including empty dormitories and old school classrooms recreated to convey loneliness and despair.

Survive and uncover the past

Stealth and attention are essential to survival. Careful thought and attention to every step help you avoid the principal, while finding marks of the past lets you solve the shelter’s riddles and uncover its secrets. The game’s events and characters draw inspiration from real cases of child abuse recorded during inspections of orphanages.

Choose the ending

You decide how the story ends, with several possible endings. The game also asks you to choose which ending the characters deserve, and uses dark, atmospheric sound.