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IRIS

Control Iris, a messenger who walks through a spiritual realm, guiding lost people who seek peace. An action-platformer focused on music, combat, and atmosphere.

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About the Game

In Iris, you traverse a higher plane — a spiritual world, distant from the physical, where every place carries echoes of lives that once passed through it.

You control Iris, a messenger who awakens in this realm without knowing why. Her calling is simple and impossible to ignore: to walk. To move forward through places where silence weighs more than words, carrying messages that cannot be spoken — feelings that must be understood, soothed, or released.

Throughout her journey, Iris encounters lost people: souls trapped in grief, fear, longing, or desires they cannot let go of. Some seek guidance. Others, bound to their own suffering, try to stop her from moving on. Each encounter reveals deep fragments of what it means to exist, to hurt, and to seek peace.

The experience blends exploration and 2D combat, guided primarily by music, which shapes the rhythm of the journey, sets emotional beats, and molds the atmosphere of the world around her. Combat emerges as a natural extension of this musical flow, while the environment — at times warm, at times somber — responds to the emotional state of the souls Iris meets.

Key Features

  • Iris, a messenger walking through a vast spiritual plane

  • Atmosphere guided by music, shaping the tone of the journey

  • Simple 2D combat integrated with the rhythm and emotion of each encounter

  • Symbolic environments echoing stories, emotions, and memories

  • A world that begins gentle and welcoming, but gradually reveals its heavier, more honest side

  • Short, human stories about loss, love, regret, and reconciliation

  • An enigmatic protagonist whose true origin may never be fully understood