The Keyless: Awakening

The Keyless: Awakening

EddysssGames · November 11, 2022 · Singleplayer, First-Person, Linear, Adventure, Exploration

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About The Keyless: Awakening

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The Keyless: Awakening is a first-person exploration of a surreal, dreamlike realm where you walk through endless corridors and fields of roses, solving simple metaphorical challenges while encountering bizarre creatures and messages from those trapped before you. Each path you choose subtly transforms the environment, creating a deeply interpretive experience about dreams, life, and death that rewards your own meaning-making.

The Keyless: Awakening is a journey through a dreamlike and surreal world, witnessing bizarre, metaphorical and surreal scenes as you overcome simple challenges.

The Keyless: Awakening — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
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.

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The Keyless: Awakening is a low-effort asset-flip horror game that receives sharply divided opinions from players. Supporters praise its atmospheric presentation, engaging chase sequences, and mysterious narrative concept involving a cryptic caller, though some note it took them around 2 hours to complete; however, critics point out repetitive level design, confusing layouts, game-breaking bugs like invisible or missing interactive objects, and overall lack of polish that makes progression frustrating or impossible.

Not recommended Aug 8, 2025
"Find The Key" is a low key asset flip, a bunch of other people's assets assembled badly to make a basic game, typically this kind of thing is done by amateur developers without sufficient budget, talent and/or staff to do the job of game development professionally. It's then quickly rushed into Steam Direct. And, unsurprisingly, this never results in a product with any quality, interest, or value for gamers. This is a lame simplistic first person horror adventure, there's literally thousands of these low effort jumpscare asset flips here on Steam, and this, remarkably, is one of the worst. All you do is explore the same asset copy + pasted a couple of times, with a nonsensical layout and even more nonsensical gameplay. Unfortunately despite being so bad, this game has plenty of equally awful peers here on Steam. So, the game might look better than you'd expect from an amateur project, but this is because it's partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Very little in this game is truly the creation of the "developer", it's just a bunch of rearranged assets. While there's no up front price for this asset flip, the o…
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Not recommended Dec 7, 2024
I hate to give this game a bad rating, as I was enjoying playing it very much. The chase scenes were challenging but not impossible, and it was fun to try and find all the little green guys and the notes. Unfortunately I finally ended up in a dead end room with a phone ringing nearby, but no phone was visible to interact with, and no hidden exit. So after putting in almost 2 and a half hours of time, I was unable to continue and had to quit.
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Recommended Oct 6, 2024
i thought i found the key, but i became even more keyless. Awakening.
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Recommended Mar 31, 2026
Great free game. loved every minute of it. Took me about 1h 50 to finish so not sure why steam says 58 mins. Anyway, the game is great with effect. You start off at a door to the outside world but just as your about to go through a phone call stops you and tells you the only way through that door is THE KEY....IF IT EXISTS? The unknown caller will constantly call you throughout the game (text on scren) and keep telling you the key doesn’t exist and to stop looking for it, but your protagonist insists it must be real and he will keep looking for it. Basically, you ignore the caller and keep looking. There are a few chases from whatever is chasing you, some are easy, some are tricky as their ws blood pools along the way and if you fall in you start the chase again so make sure to jump over the blood pools or go around if you can. The effects are nice with the green NEON man and the spinning orbs and planets. The developer put in tonnes of effort for this game. I can't understand why it's free. I enjoyed the whole game. It's a walking simulator but be aware the rooms change a lot, walls move etc as thing happen. When you finish the phone calls, blood pours from the phone…
Recommended Jan 12, 2026
The graphics on this game are really good. The only complain i have is i almost give up because there was a room where the phone did not showed up. luckily i was able to fix that by leaving to the main menu and starting over from the checkpoint. i don't want to give a bad review since it looks like you do updates.
Not recommended Jun 28, 2024
This was a really weird metaphor for women who love taco bell. Also, really slow, and kinda confusing, not really fun.

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