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Tales of Ancients: Hollow Apartments

Reality unravels.Every floor reflects your mind.Tales of Ancients: Hollow Apartments a dark, atmospheric journey through psychological horror and inner collapse.

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Developer
Bastudio
Publisher
Axell Studio
Release
November 18, 2025
257 days ago
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About the Game

🕯️ Message from the Developer

Tales of Ancients is a passion-driven project created by a single developer.
Thanks to your feedback, support, and curiosity, this dark story will continue to grow 
and eventually reach its final form.

This version represents the first chapter of Alex’s journey.
If you wish to see what lies beyond the darkness... we’ll reach there together.

🕯️ Story

Documentary photographer Alex Carter follows the trail of his missing grandfather to the forgotten town of Lynxvale.
But this place holds more than the remains of the past  it echoes something that was never meant to be remembered.

At the heart of the town stands the Hollow Apartments, a silent graveyard of trapped memories.
Each apartment carries the shadow of a life once lived.
Each floor unveils a part of Alex he never knew existed.
And every whisper pulls him deeper into himself.

This journey is the first step toward truth...
or perhaps where the truth truly begins.

⚙️ Key Features

  • 🧠 Psychological Horror: A descent into the fragile border between sanity and delusion.

  • 🔦 Exploration & Survival: Every step echoes through the silence. Light can guide you... or betray you.

  • 🗝️ Environmental Puzzles: Mechanical systems and spatial reasoning challenges that reward observation and patience.

  • 📜 Fragmented Narrative: Each document, object, and space unveils traces of a forgotten tragedy.

  • 👁️ Unseen Threats: Something moves in the dark  unheard, unseen, yet always watching.

  • 🎧 Sound & Tension: Silence itself becomes a threat; what you hear might never have existed.

🌒

Alex’s journey begins here.
But every path has a continuation 
and some paths are simply too deep to return from.

Community feedback will directly influence future chapters of the story.

Note: Currently available in English. Additional language support may be considered after release.

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