The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
Haunted Dude · 2025 · Choices Matter, Lovecraftian, Indie, Demons, Visual Novel
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About The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
On the quiet, cold morning of October 26, 2016, exactly at 5:00 A.M., many things happened all at once.A bloody ritual was concluded.A young man lost his memory.A small creature, named Dark Wisp, was born in the vastness of the Void.The rooftops of Red Hives welcomed the light of a new day.The last day of the world.The Demons Told Me to Make This Game is a Time Loop game and a cosmic horror narrative adventure about demons, monsters, evil cults, bloody rituals, and Elder Gods.You play as Dark Wisp, a disembodied spirit who is unable to interact with the physical world directly, but instead can possess people and speak into their ears, influencing their behavior.Your hosts have agency and will keep trying to act on their own accord, but you mustn't let them do that. They're dumbasses, and without your help they will imminently perish. Fortunately, you have control over the flow of time, so you can undo their stupidity whenever you want.Make choices. Experiment. Explore different timelines. Learn what you need and help your hosts survive. After all, they're the ones destined to save the world.To complete TDTMTMTG, you will have to solve a series of Time Loops. Loops are broken down into Time Slots to help you experiment with their interconnected events. In each Time Slot, you will possess one host, leaving the rest to their own devices, free to make their impressively bad decisions. Keeping your hosts alive won't be easy. To weave a timeline of their survival, you will need to see the events from different perspectives and rely on numerous, often cruel experiments. You will make your hosts do despicable things, and you will watch them die, over and over again, gaining knowledge and wisdom with each instance. Once you have crafted the perfect sequence of events, the loop is completed, and the story moves forward.Flawed as they are, your hosts are thinking people. You don't have direct control over what they do or say. Each host has a unique, strong personality. Making them do what needs to be done will require finesse and patience, as well as complete disregard for their well-being.Be their best friend. Be their worst bully. Cheer for them. Mock them. Take advantage of their deepest fears and anxieties. The hosts may not always listen, but they will always hear you. And even if reasoning with them fails, you can always play a mini-game to hijack their brains. To solve the time loop, you will have to make your hosts do terrible things that go against their very nature. Red Hives may look like a small, dying town where nothing ever happens, but don't let the looks deceive you. The history of this place is riddled with terrible tragedies and things way worse than demons lurk in its shadows.The only ones standing against the darkness are a ragged crew of exorcists. Brave but hopelessly unprepared for what they face. Fortunately, they have you. As you guide them, bending wills and shaping fates, one question lingers: whose side are you really on?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I would love to recommend this game: the premise, concept, execution, etc. are fun and had me hooked. Except the steam page (at least, while viewing on my Steam Deck) simply stated the game as "early access". There was no information that it was PAUSED. I wish the game page would be more transparent about that as I wouldn't have bought the game if I knew the developers were unable to finish it. Rather than "early access", Steam (deck) should display the disclaimer as paused with unknown intention of whether it will ever be finished. Or have it visible in the description. It was oddly hard to find the information about the halt?? I don't know if it's because I was on my Steam Deck but finding the post where the pause was mentioned was difficult. I realize I should have looked at the community tab closer rather than patch notes and whatnot, so that's completely on me. I googled Loop 2 and saw a post saying every 4-6 months an update would be dropped so I assumed I just caught the game in an early stage. Until I saw someone's community post. Beneath the Early Access are the usual questions which have not been modified with Why Early Access saying "Early Access allows us to to…6 found this helpful
Developed and published by Haunted Dude, The Demons Told Me to Make This Game is an inventive narrative RPG that combines psychological horror, supernatural mystery, dark humor, and investigative adventure into a memorable experience. Instead of placing players in the role of a traditional hero, the game casts them as Dark Wisp, an ethereal being with no physical form who can only shape events by possessing human hosts and subtly influencing their decisions. This unusual premise immediately separates the game from more conventional horror titles, emphasizing observation, manipulation, and problem-solving over combat. Set in the seemingly quiet town of Red Hives, the story gradually peels back layers of unsettling secrets involving demonic entities, mysterious cults, forgotten histories, and an impending catastrophe that threatens far more than a single community. One of the game's defining mechanics is its time-loop structure, which encourages players to learn through repetition rather than fear failure. Every cycle provides another opportunity to uncover hidden details, alter crucial choices, and observe events from entirely different perspectives. Since Dark Wisp relies on posse…2 found this helpful
Wow this game was truly incredible, and I loved it so much! Completely heartbroken over its uncertain future however. I recc buying the game with the expectation that what you see is what you get. The only "chapter" available is Act 1, which has several parts and several hours worth of gameplay within. Truly hope that the devs might one day make a patreon or kickstarter to support this project, its truly incredible2 found this helpful
A game I desperately hope to see finished one day. A genius gameplay loop, really solid writing (with the occasional typo and odd wording), fun characters, and overall a really great vibe. My only complaint is that that it's incomplete, and the story cuts off right after a "here's the goal and here's what we do to do now!" scene that ends abruptly. Definitely worth the price, at the very least to support development1 found this helpful
great game looking forward to future updates1 found this helpful
This game is insane with how it could have me crying tears of sadness and a few loops after crying tears of utter baffledness! 10/10 can't wait for this game to be complete!
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