Church of Stratum (Prologue)
A downloadable game for Windows
The end of times is upon us, we must cast aside this land and embrace the land of past times if we are to one day walk in god’s new world.
So goes the speech the Church of Stratum cult repeated every day, until they all suddenly vanished over 40 years ago.
But now by accident you have just discovered their now abandoned underground bunker, make your way through the dilapidated hallways and discover the mystery of what caused the death of the entire bunker.
A story driven puzzle adventure game with a spooky atmosphere that does not have monsters or threats to the player.
- First person exploration
- Puzzles
- Physics interaction
- Time travel
- Developer commentary
Walkthrough on how to beat the game
Feel free to make Videos on the game. Just link it to me so i can watch.
Game length: 30 to 80 minutes
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Development log
- Steam PageJul 05, 2021
- I'm backMar 09, 2021
- Version 1.3Feb 06, 2021
- Moving fowardJan 22, 2021
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when the fuse box explodes i can't put the fuse when i have it
can you please make a linux version? everything works better without emulation and i have a shitty acer laptop
Superb update, Tillion!
Lots of area and content added, showing us that you've got a well-conceived plan in mind for this, which gets me jazzed up for becoming a backer of your work.
The fairly vague yet hinted-at storyline is quite well fleshed out for an introduction; artwork and visuals are of very high caliber, convincingly portraying an abandoned place; gameplay mechanics are first-rate; the overall mood is top-notch for my tastes. This presses all my buttons for what I like about an adventure game.
I'll be one of your first Kickstarter supporters.
P.S.: I know something about abandoned places; I've explored and photographed an abandoned mental hospital, among other locations. You've set the appearance extremely well for such.
The game is still really good it did crash however that wasn't a problem for me.
Nice game
Interesting game. We had a lot of fun testing it. Loved the atmosphere.
Excellent effort; I liked it a lot.
My first playthrough must have glitched, because I got the water and power sorted out, but no lights or final door.Another playthrough was successful, though.
It's got a creepy atmosphere without jump-scares and gore, and I enjoyed the exploration. I'd like to see a full-on game developed from this, continuing in the same atmosphere. It's got a similar vibe to Dark Hope, which I enjoyed immensely: A mysterious location of unknown purpose; puzzles that fit the game setting; exploration, etc...
(Full disclosure: Dark Hope contains number puzzles which are not base-10 such as we use daily, which I do not understand well.)
Church Of Stratum is exactly the sort of game that gets me involved, and I look forward to a fully fleshed-out game based on this prologue.
Good stuff, Tillion!
EDIT to add: I just contributed via the download link, but could only increase my contribution to $12 US. I wanted to make it $15 or $20, but the Itch.io portal didn't let me.
Thank you for the kind words and sorry about the game glitching, I will look into making it more stable as that section is definetly quite the bodge job.
No worries, Tillion.
It's an extremely solid prologue, with excellent potential, and I loved it. I contributed because I like what you've provided, and I'd love to see the game fleshed-out into a more comprehensive experience.
Excellent Prologue! Can't wait for the Full Version. Congrats!
Thanks for making a video. glad you enjoyed
Hello, I played this game and I liked it, it didn't really feel like a horror game but as a puzzle game it was pretty neat, good work :)
thanks for making the video. the game is light in the horror but still had the spooky atmopshere. I plan to add more horror like elements but as the description says dont expect monsters or jumpscares
thanks for playing and making a video
Looks interesting, I will try to give it a try this/next week.
Great hope you enjoy
Hello! interesting idea to switch between the present and past however I noticed you can interact with "present" when you're in the past, such as notes etc.. and you can go through door that you opened in the present but appeared closed in the past. I expected so many jumpscare but I got a nice surprise instead, very good prologue!
thanks for playing. im gonna enjoy watching your video, yes i do need to work to make it clearer to players that they can only view the past and not interact with it, your physical body remains in the present.
Thanks to your lets play I've now updated the game to make things easier for players to understand.
I am not sure this works as intended. When switching to the alternate reality, rubble and stones still block your character even though they are not there. Might be something you should check out. Maybe its intended. And in that case im stuck :)
It's the ability to view the past, not go to the past, but thanks i'll work on making it clearer you can not interact with the past view.
Ok fair enough. I think im just stuck then :) Can't progress further. Will take another look.
Hay i've just made a Walkthrough. the link is in the games description. thanks for playing and sorry you can stuck. please do tell me at what parts you get stuck with the game. thanks
I have completed the game now. I was just a retard at opening doors :D It is a pretty nice little puzzle game. I did expect a bit more Horror in it, since its tagged as horror :) But other than that its pretty good. Thank you.
thanks for the feedback. I'll work on adding more spooky elements but as description says don't expect any monsters or jumpscares.