Project Nihilum: Zero

Project Nihilum: Zero is a narrative-driven visual novel set in a futuristic dystopia where reality and illusion collide. You play as a brainwashed inmate who was kidnapped and imprisoned in an underground laboratory. With no memories and surrounded by evidence of horrific crimes, you plan your escape while trying to understand your growing power, decide whom to trust and uncover what happened to you.

Story and routes

The story unfolds through three routes, each showing different perspectives on the wider events. Your choices lead through hidden lore and twists as you encounter secrets and strange entities in the laboratory and beyond.

• The Laboratories: The organization that kidnapped you may use you for its own benefit, but you can also use it. Explore its corridors and face the question of whether you will escape or become part of it.
• True Paradise: Seek a found family in a shelter where victims and former laboratory employees come together. Some residents are involved in shady business and pursue their plans through deception.
• The Bounty Hunters: Enter a mysterious organization founded by someone said not to be human, where money, hunting and lies make its members difficult to trust.

Abilities and memories

Choose one of three abilities: Hybrid, Shape Shifting or Mind Glimpse. Your choice can unlock certain scenes, memories or routes. Use an ability to discover snippets of the characters’ pasts, and uncover what happened before your memories were taken as you choose a new family.

The main character is not shown. You can choose a name and use he, she or they pronouns. A censor mode can be enabled at the beginning to show censored versions of some scenes.

Voice and galleries

Character dialogue is voiced, and the game features original soundtracks that you can unlock and listen to in the music gallery. You can also unlock images throughout the story and view them in the image gallery.