The Well

The Well is a first-person psychological horror game about a hermit trapped at his remote home after an unknown force cuts him off from the outside world. With no electricity, a broken car and a destroyed battery-powered landline, he cannot escape. Starving and increasingly unstable, he drinks from the well to dull his hunger until he pulls up a human corpse. He then begins carrying out the corpse’s requests, as if they came from someone alive.

Explore the property

The story progresses day by day across the protagonist’s fog-shrouded property and the surrounding forest. You explore locations, read notes and books, find required items and complete simple objectives. Interactive items reveal what is happening, while each day changes the environment and brings new objectives and areas to explore. As the protagonist descends into madness, the house becomes a dump and his morals decay.

Follow the corpse’s requests

The corpse communicates mostly one-sidedly, but you can understand what she needs. Fulfilling her requests drives the story forward over several in-game days and through multiple locations.

Hunt in the forest

Some objectives take you into small areas of forest thicket teeming with humanoid creatures. You hunt them with a slow-reloading rifle and finish them off with a machete. Basic stealth and noise management shape these encounters: NPCs react to your movement and gunfire.

The game lasts approximately 30 minutes and includes short hunting encounters as part of its exploration, item-finding and objective-based progression.