Hey itch!

We’re excited to have just released Interment, a narrative puzzle game that won the Grand Prize at the Bristol Games Hub event for Global Game Jam 2023:

https://interment.itch.io/play

This game is about the connection between the stories of our ancestors and the stories we make today.

You play as a contractor for developers who are planning to build houses on an old family graveyard. As part of the planning permission, the graves must be re-interred elsewhere with accurately named headstones.

Your job is to match the currently unreadable, crumbling headstones to the correct person using archive material, contextual clues and whispers from the past itself.

The archive consists of documents belonging to family members buried in the graveyard, including a will, diary entry, death certificate, articles, letters and even song lyrics. In these, you get a fleeting sense of the family members’ eccentric lives and the subtleties of their relationships.

To give a steer on what to expect from the gameplay, two games that really inspired us were Return of the Obra Dinn and What Remains of Edith Finch.

It takes around 30 minutes to complete, though this varies depending on playstyle.    

We’d really love to hear what people think of the game. As narrative designer, I'd especially be interested to hear the different details that people notice in the story!

We’re really proud of what we were able to make in 48 hours and hope the game is both enjoyable and makes you think.

Do get in touch if you want to chat about the game at all; we’d love to hear from you!

Jack (narrative designer and writer)