The Doll Beneath

The Doll Beneath

SurvivalMyths · August 16, 2022 · Psychological Horror, Thriller, Horror, Visual Novel, RPG

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The Doll Beneath price

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About The Doll Beneath


Awakened from a deep slumber, six students find themselves trapped inside an abandoned research facility, otherwise known as the "Losinglight". Delve deep into the trenches of the black eclipse, and search for a way out. Escape into a war torn city, and discover the truth behind an otherworldly being like no other.

KEY FEATURES


A thrilling 5 episode long storyline. - Spanning over the course of five different episodes, with four chapters each, experience a different story with each entry. (Not all episodes may be available at launch.)

Unique characters, all with their own individual backstories. - Each and every character has their own story to tell. Learn about them, and unravel the reason why you were taken.

Detective-like gameplay, with numerous different ways to uncover the story. - Collect evidence, and piece the story together yourself. There's a bigger picture at play here, can you uncover the truth?

A 2D classic RPG Maker horror experience. - Taking elements from other RPG Maker games, The Doll Beneath will combine the use the puzzles, exploration, and isolation, to bring you a one of a kind, classic RPG Maker experience.

Discover secrets - Alongside the main story, comes a whole slew of side activities to discover. They're not easy to find.

Run, hide, RUN! - Be wary, you're not alone in here. Run, hide, and most importantly, RUN, to stay alive!

As you explore the world of Kemden City, you will encounter many different obstacles, some not even human. Do your best, and stay alive. Uncover the truth behind it all, and search for a way out.

The Doll Beneath — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise the game's compelling story, atmospheric world-building, charming characters with distinct personalities, and engaging plot twists, though opinions vary on pacing. The main criticisms are that it's extremely dialogue-heavy with long unskippable cutscenes that make progression slow, technical issues in later episodes, and a feeling that the narrative drags in the final chapters, with some feeling the story should have concluded earlier.

Recommended Jun 29, 2023
Honestly, the game is good. It has good arts, a LOT of dialogues, a good atmosphere, a nice posibility of exploring. But it's just not for me. I'd recommend it to those people that like really long games that want you to sit by them a whole day just reading one dialogue and watching one custcene (long dialogue) for about 30 minutes, if not more. Yeah, there are saves, but you can't save once you started dialogue and read it until the very end. Characters are peculiar, every one has its own charisma, and negative sides also. There are 5 episodes, i couldn't complete even one in 5 hours, so make your decision and have fun
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Recommended May 20, 2023
Amazing game I play little part of game but its looks goods thanks for the game 👍
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Recommended Mar 13, 2026
I did NOT expect this game to be so good. The gameplay, the story, the plot twists… everything was really nice and fun. Boss fights were challenging, and frustratingly fun. I like how the character arcs of each of the characters progressed over the episodes. However, I do wish the game had ended somewhere around ep3. The last two episodes didn’t hit as well as the first three. Felt a little dragged. The entirety of ep5, I had faced issues with the game being laggy and crashing frequently. I hadn’t faced this with any of the other episodes. Overall, a good game. I’m looking forward to playing more from the devs. ^^
Not recommended Mar 9, 2026
RPG Maker strikes again! This is yet another low effort pixelcrap RPG Maker asset flip made with the RPG Maker game construction kit (designed for children to use). Almost every RPG Maker asset flip is just a bunch of stock RPG Maker assets mixed with cringe-inducing high school anime club dropout fan-fiction. The "developer" here didn't know how to make a JRPG with RPG Maker, which is the only thing it's for, and instead, worse, copy + pasted out a primitive top down "adventure" game that's more e-book than actual game you can play... this is a game you have to read. And wow... the writing is painfully cringey high school anime club dropout fan-fiction writing about the author and his relationships with his imaginary anime friends. The plot follows the author being trapped with people so they have to be his friends, in an underground research facility, so you WASD your way around the asset flipped RPG Maker backdrop to reveal more and more cringey e-book writing. Like other RPG Maker "games", the game engine is extremely low quality. It displays badly in fullscreen, and has no real graphics settings or HD support. It's not up to the same standard we expect from a modern PC gam…
Not recommended Jun 9, 2025
Not enough forcefemming, I thought Akio was going to be made to wear a pretty dress, I was sorely dissapointed.
Recommended Jun 30, 2023
Lovely story

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