Lucid Coma by Eden Meridia Surreal 2023 Web Site

About the Story

Will you escape the nightmare, or will fear break your Will to Live?

You are trapped in an endless cycling nightmare of waking up and being killed by a shadow. Soon, you will achieve lucidity and will be able to control your thoughts, and the course of the nightmare.

Each time that you die, you come closer and closer to forfeiting your life. The only way to keep yourself going, is by thinking of the people you love...

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Based on Eden Meridia's Cryptid Universe

Made for the Neo-Twiney Jam with the challenge of less than 500 words.

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Controls and How to Play


Choices are slightly yellowed text. The game requires you to read carefully for any changes - hover your mouse over a word to see if it is a choice.

As you will learn on the first 3 cycles of the game, the game loops through the same nightmare. Once achieving lucidity, you can choose paths to discover a new "dying thought." Each unique dying thought will reveal something new in the next cycle of the nightmare.

Each time that you die, you lose your Will to Live. When you run out, you forfeit your life. To increase your Will to Live, you must remind yourself of an attachment to reality.

Note: Some things need two thoughts to have happened before being revealed.

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Made using Twine (Snowman) and Krita

Game Details