Vigil

The world ended in light. You are the dark that's left — and he is still alive in here. Keep the light out. Keep him in.

Something ended the world, and it came as light. Now you keep to the dark of a house at the forest's edge — and you are not alone in it. He is here: warm, awake, moving room to room, throwing every switch he can find, trying to get a door open and get out into the night.

You cannot let him.

Vigil is a top-down reverse-horror game where you play the thing in the dark. You move only through shadow — step into light and you freeze where you stand. You snuff the house's lamps to reshape the floor and herd him back from the exits. You loom in the black to break his nerve. But he fights: he relights what you kill, he pins you in his torch beam, he runs for every door — and every light burning in this house calls something worse out of the trees.

You'll tell yourself it's a hunt.

How the night ends

Controls

"Limited Power" — three ways