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As William Redmoor, explore a nightmare-torn treatment center, fight grotesque creatures, solve puzzles, and seek a way out.
Released 17 Dec 2013
Escape the Nightmare Ward
Fight Grotesque Creatures
Use Weapons as Keys
The visage of doctors and patients alike fade in and out of these nightmarish visions of tortured memories. This eggshell reality is fractured by experiments conducted in the ward. Blood, flesh and screams surround as you put together the pieces of your story and make your escape from the Bright Dawn Treatment Center while the dark...
Developed by Memetic Games · Published by Missing Link Games









You play as William Redmoor, a patient at Bright Dawn Treatment Center who wakes amid nightmare visions and fractured memories. Explore the ward and other unsettling places as you piece together what is happening and try to escape.
Move through first-person environments, investigate routes forward, solve puzzles, and face hostile creatures with melee and ranged weapons. Enemies may call for different approaches, while encounters mix fighting with chances to avoid combat.
Weapons serve more than one purpose: in addition to attacking enemies, some grant access to new areas. The journey also moves between ordinary and distorted versions of the world, with exploration and backtracking connecting its locations.
Players who enjoy the game often mention its unsettling atmosphere, creature designs, and old-school horror feel, along with the appeal of exploring its environments and fighting varied enemies. Some also appreciate the puzzles and the story's strange premise. Other reviews find the combat and pacing frustrating, and recurring complaints about crashes, bugs, and the PC version’s presentation temper the praise.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 23 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Metacritic | 37/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |