Intrapsychic : Strings (Demo)

Someone put up a poster with your face on it. Then, one detail at a time, the poster forgot you.

You wake in a little bedroom in a house you don't know. It is old, painted and papered like a dollhouse, and somewhere in it are puppets that move on strings nobody is holding. Find the notes that people before you left behind, solve the puzzle room for the key, and get out the front door.

*Strings* is the first piece of **Intrapsychic**, a world where the people who are taken stop having existed.

The house is never the same twice

Every run builds a new two-storey house: around fifty rooms around a grand foyer and staircase, with locked wings, hidden rooms behind bookcases, and its own puzzle. The notes tell you where things are, if you read them carefully.

Puppets that listen

- **The Slasher** skitters on wooden joints that bend.

- **The Grabber** is slow, heavy and lunges.

- **The Climber** waits upside down on the ceiling for you to walk underneath.

And then the lights go out

A few minutes in, the power fails for good. After that, it's the rooms with oil lamps, your flashlight and however many batteries you've found.

What's in it

- Searching that's physical: pull drawers open, dig through the clutter, find what's underneath.

- Breakable melee weapons, scarce guns and scarcer ammunition, and spirit candles that keep the puppets back while they burn.

- Two puzzle types (the Hangman's dials and a torn picture), area keys, and secret rooms.

- A hub street on a sound stage to come back to between runs, with starting items to unlock.

Local split-screen co-op** for two (keyboard & mouse plus a controller, or two controllers).

- A short tutorial the first time you play, told only through notes.

- Full controller support, and a difficulty setting.

This is a demo

This demo contains the first level, the Doll House, with its ending. More levels are planned for the full game. Feedback is very welcome in the comments, especially bugs and anything that broke the mood.

Installing

Download, unzip, run `IntrapsychicStrings.exe`. No install. It runs in its own window using Microsoft Edge (built into Windows 10 and 11) or Google Chrome. If Windows says "Windows protected your PC", choose **More info**, then **Run anyway**: the game isn't signed with a paid certificate.

### Controls

| | Keyboard & mouse | Controller |

|---|---|---|

| Move / look | WASD / mouse | Left stick / right stick |

| Run | Shift | Click left stick |

| Crouch | C | Click right stick |

| Use, open, pick up | E (hold: take a door's handle) | A |

| Attack | Left click | Right trigger |

| Aim a gun | Right click | Left trigger |

| Block | Space (hold) | Right bumper (hold) |

| Flashlight | F | X (hold: change battery) |

| Item wheel (candles, batteries, journal, map) | Tab (hold) | Y (hold) |

| Reload | R | B |

| Pause | Esc | Start |

System requirements

- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

- A graphics card with WebGL 2 (most from the last ten years)

- About 300 MB of disk space

Credits

Design, code, art and music by the developer. Sound effects are CC0 recordings by Kenney and many OpenGameArt contributors (the full list is in `Sound credits.md` in the download). Built with three.js.