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Fathoms

Fathoms: Narrative psychological horror meets anomaly game. Survive 24 days in a row with your wife in an apartment in the underwater city of Fathoms while you lose your mind or die – and the nightmare starts all over again...

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Sebastian Schlesinger
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[Advertise Here] Games
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About the Game

Your New Life in Fathoms 

Winning the lottery lets you and your wife escape the global crises on the surface and move to Fathoms – a new city deep on the ocean floor that promises a better life. 
 
But shortly after the two of you move into a small apartment, strange things start happening that slowly but surely make you doubt your own mind. Is it just the depth causing these unbearable headaches? Or are the eerie hallucinations merely a side effect of the Tiefenmedikament? At least your wife seems to be doing better with every passing day, even though fine black veins now show beneath her faded skin... and the two of you are slowly starting to like the sickeningly sweet stench in the apartment... 
 

About This Game 

In Fathoms, narrative psychological horror meets disturbing anomalies in an underwater-city apartment. Experience, through the first-person eyes of a young man, how the new home he shares with his wife slowly turns into a nightmare. Can you spot the anomalies 24 days in a row and inject the Tiefenmedikament in time? 

 

Stay Alert! 

Something is wrong in your cozy new apartment – you see monsters crawling out of dark corners, from somewhere you hear someone wheezing, and your wife stands at the window with strangely twisted limbs, laughing – quickly, you grab the syringe with the Tiefenmedikament and the haunting is over – blackout. But every single day you have to check anew whether an anomaly is occurring in your apartment or not – and here your powers of observation are your only weapon.  

Decide quickly:  

An anomaly appears? -> grab the syringe 

No anomaly? -> go to the front door and leave the apartment 

 

Features 

  • 100+ unique anomalies across three escalating severity levels 

  • A modern apartment that decays further with every passing day 

  • A deeply disturbing relationship story woven through three acts 

  • Atmospheric horror – no cheap jump scares (except for one or two, or three, promise) 

  • Underwater setting, inspired by...(you can probably guess ;-)) 

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