Masquerade
DEUS EX MACHINA TROUPE · 2025 · Adventure, Puzzle, Singleplayer, Choose Your Own Adventure, 3D
PC
Very Positive98% · 99
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About Masquerade
Abducted by the dangerous Theater, Juliet has been turned into a puppet. Guided by the mysterious Narrator, Romeo will embark on a twisted journey through faux decors, rotating sets, and deceptive backstages.What secrets lie beneath the Theater?
Inspired by the original Romeo and Juliet of Shakespeare, rediscover key beats of their tragedy in this expansive 3D reimagination. Explore the Theater and its mysteries in this fully voiced immersive narrative adventure, follow Romeo and the Narrator in their quest to save Juliet, but be wary of the lights…Who knows, maybe you’ll even find out what’s hiding below the stage?
We hope you’ll like it.
Made with Unreal Engine 5.4Playing with a controller is recommended.
Inspired by the original Romeo and Juliet of Shakespeare, rediscover key beats of their tragedy in this expansive 3D reimagination. Explore the Theater and its mysteries in this fully voiced immersive narrative adventure, follow Romeo and the Narrator in their quest to save Juliet, but be wary of the lights…Who knows, maybe you’ll even find out what’s hiding below the stage?
- Explore a story’s worth of beautiful hand-crafted theater sets.
- Solve more than a dozen real-time puzzles containing rotating sets, dangerous lights, and varied challenges.
- Experience a fully-voiced original story inspired by the world of the theater.
- Move through a classic three-act structure as the story progresses.
- Immerse yourself in a spectacle, from start to finish, and play as its main actor.
- Live through the narration in English or in French (voices only available in English).
We hope you’ll like it.
Made with Unreal Engine 5.4Playing with a controller is recommended.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Student project or otherwise, Masquerade is pretty impressive. Production value on display is pretty staggering with full voice acting and well-realized locations where intentional lighting does so much of the heavy lifting. Romeo and Juliet it is except in this adaptation our enamored youth finds himself on stage and BEHIND stage chasing after his love who just so happens to be an automata with her exposed heart always one step removed. Along the way he's aided by the Narrator likewise set on finding his way off the stage. Why not help the pair as they're cheered on by equally mechanized audience. Still, is everything truly as it appears? Masquerade is a charming combination of adventure, puzzle and even stealth-lite in just the right doses. I stumbled couple of times due to controls that could've used an additional pass of fine tuning, but this is a minor complaint when you observe the package as a whole and consider you're not paying anything for it. Under half hour is just about how long it takes before the game is through with its set of cards without repeating any of them. If you ask me I would've still liked it to be a bit longer as level designer(s) definitely knew t…6 found this helpful
Masquerade is FREE and VERY VERY SHORT student project with nice presentation. Made by French students for their graduation, this couldn't be any more indie. The fact that even such a short project has decent voice acting is respectable and always appreciated by me! Don't know if anyone mentioned it yet but the character models are high grade. If this was an actual longer game it could actually stand on its own. I'd pay for that. Respectable effort.3 found this helpful
The Game from students and its free) This Game exceeded my expectations(Lore is much better than in Assassins Creed Valhalla), defenetly recommend it!2 found this helpful
Student projects on Steam are one of my favorite categories of game to try out since you so often get creative little rough gems that wouldn't work for as a full title but as small experiments work exceptionally well. Masquerade is one such little gem. An excellent little Shakespeare adventure that's short but incredibly stylish. It's free so there's no reason to not give it a try.1 found this helpful
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