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Around - The Game

Step into a haunted mansion where reality bends. Solve chilling puzzles, offer cherries to speak with the Fiend, and escape before you're consumed by the nightmare.

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Developer
Tecshield
Publisher
Story Czar
Release
November 9, 2025
266 days ago
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About the Game

Welcome to the Mansion. It’s Watching.

In Around, you awaken inside a sprawling, decaying mansion that twists in impossible ways. Doors lead back to where you started, corridors stretch into darkness, and something is always just out of sight.

Explore the shifting halls as you uncover forgotten memories, solve cryptic puzzles, and collect mysterious cherries—the only way to communicate with the ominous Fiend stalking the shadows. Speak carefully… the Fiend listens.

But beware: the mansion is alive. It warps and twists the more you discover. The deeper you go, the harder it becomes to tell what’s real and what’s a trap.

Key Features:

  •  Atmospheric exploration of a haunted, shifting mansion

  •  Unique puzzles that challenge perception and memory

  •  A lurking presence that reacts to your actions

  •  Use cherries to speak with the Fiend—or risk drawing its attention

  •  Looping, reality-bending level design with psychological horror elements

  •  Immersive sound design and whispers in the dark

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