The Tunnels

The Tunnels (Maze Digital Services)

Maze Digital Services · November 27, 2024 · Exploration, Simulation, Interactive Fiction, Political, First-Person

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The Tunnels price

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About The Tunnels

✦ AI summary

The Tunnels is a procedural maze environment that confronts players with the human cost of conflict through real-time data and reflection rather than traditional gameplay. It presents an immersive space designed to strip away statistics and reveal the profound grief behind conflict, challenging players to navigate both a labyrinth and their own understanding of humanitarian crises.

The Tunnels is a procedural maze environment, where everyone loses except grief
This work reflects on the human cost of conflict. The information presented is based on real-time data, aiming to show how statistics can obscure the profound grief behind the numbers, and how we always see information through different lenses.This experience is not intended to entertain, but to provide a space for reflection on the human consequences of conflict, with profound respect for all victims and their families.There is, however, an end to reach in this hallway. In this immersive installation, the viewer evolves through a real and defining political space that most people have only seen through news, screens, and social media. A real non-space that can only be the projection of the viewer, and the developer, is constructed to try to make sense of the inhumane.
After the overwhelming labyrinth of contradicting informations we are all constantly subjected to, what can only be the truth is a mirror showing us what remains of our humanity.
The work is free but you can help the work of the UNWRA on their website.

The Tunnels — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

This game impresses players with its atmospheric presentation, lighting, and music that benefit from headphones, while featuring environmental storytelling through screens and news tickers. However, many players struggle to understand its core message and purpose, finding the experience unclear or unclear in its critique, with some finding the gameplay or conceptual direction unengaging enough to recommend it.

Recommended Jun 25, 2025
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12 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 1, 2025
ehm... good lighting and all, but it's not enough
2 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 6, 2025
kinda decents, music deffa matches, recco using headphones with :3 please do take the times to read the ticker tapes/the news inserted onto the screens :3
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Apr 10, 2025
Not sure i understood the point that the game tried to make ? At a high level it's a critique against war? but wasn't able to grasp why i had to walk through the tunnels.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 7, 2026
looks good but this is something i would not play.
Not recommended Jul 6, 2025
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