When twins Eli and Mira arrive in the serene college town of Grimson Mountains, they anticipate a fresh start—academic excellence, lush trails, and a community obsessed with self-improvement. But Eli’s unsettling visions of a phantom forest and whispers of the town’s buried name, Singing Forest, unravel a paradox: the brighter the town’s facade, the darker the truths festering beneath. Guided by their father’s cryptic research into “acoustic anomalies,” the siblings uncover a resonance linking the town’s utopian ideals to a century-old ritual that consumes ambitious souls. As Eli’s visions intensify, he must choose: exploit this hidden frequency to transcend human limits or destroy it, even if it means sacrificing Mira’s future.
Gameplay:
1. Harmonic Puzzles: Use sound-based mechanics to manipulate environments—aligning echoes to open paths or disrupt hidden frequencies causing NPCs to reveal secrets.
2. Dual Protagonism: Switch between Eli (vision-driven investigations) and Mira (social stealth missions), balancing their bond to avoid suspicion from the town’s watchful elite.
3. Echoing Choices: Decisions ripple through time, altering past dialogues in flashbacks and reshaping present alliances retroactively.
Features:
1. Sonic Aesthetic Design: Environments pulsate with visual distortions tied to in-game audio cues, blurring reality during Eli’s hallucinations.
2. Ambition Engine: NPCs’ "success meters" rise as players aid their goals, but overinvestment risks transforming them into zealots guarding the town’s secret.
3. Fractured Archives: Decipher the father’s fragmented research notes, which double as a customizable skill tree for puzzle-solving or social manipulation.
Tips:
1. Listen to Silence: Gaps in ambient noise often hint at nearby secrets—mute your surroundings to spot anomalies.
2. Betray Subtly: Sabotage NPCs’ goals covertly to avoid turning the town hostile; overt actions trigger lockdowns.
3. Sync or Shatter: Keep Eli and Mira’s trust above 60%—below this, their diverging priorities split the story irrevocably.
