Part of The Vestibule — a collection of 2.5D roguelikes about the rooms behind hard doors, sharing one engine. This repo also contains LIMERENCE, a second title about relationships at their breaking points — jump to its section below. The live site's root URL is a small rozcestník (chooser page) linking to both titles — see "Play in the browser" just below.
A 2.5D philosophical roguelike about finding your way back to yourself.
You wake in a liminal waiting room with no name and no memory of what happened — a breakdown, a trip, an accident, a death; the game never says. Your self has been dissolved and filed into rooms, and the only way back to reality is through them. Each room stages a situation — a lost wallet, a dying grandmother's question, the trolley problem, the Ship of Theseus, the city of Omelas — and every choice either re-collects you or dissolves you further.
Your guide is the Usher: a shadow wearing both a halo and a small pair of horns (one of which flickers), who claims to be God on odd days and the Devil on even days and refuses to say what day it is.
Content note: the game stages heavy material in the abstract — mortality, memory loss, coercion, moral injury — but never depicts graphic violence; nothing here is jump-scare horror, and every room can be read or skipped at your own pace.
Play in the browser: https://danieldmas.github.io/RogueLikeGame/ is a
rozcestník (chooser page) linking to both titles — ANAMNESIS directly at
.../anamnesis/, LIMERENCE at .../limerence/.
Or run it locally:
npm install
npm run dev # play at the printed local URL- Click doors in the scene or the cards below; 1–9 pick choices; Space/Enter advance text; Esc pauses.
- Hearts are your grip on reality. Lose all three and the run ends in dissolution — a real ending, not a fail screen.
- Lucidity rewards honest engagement, not any particular morality. It unlocks secret doors and the rarest endings.
- After every choice, a Field Note reveals the actual philosophy behind the room — thinkers, arguments, the real stakes. Notes persist forever in the Codex.
- A run visits 15 of the 30+3 authored rooms (the "+3" is an optional, hidden Act V — descend once you're offered the stairs, and you won't be nudged back). Hidden alignment axes (reason↔feeling, self↔others, control↔acceptance), branching doors, and six endings — and rumors of a seventh — reward replay.
- Keepsakes are small, optional mementos a handful of choices leave you carrying into future runs — never mandatory, never a mechanical advantage, just a quiet thread between lives.
- The Ledger (from the title or pause menu) tracks your history across every run — hearts spent and kept, endings witnessed, doors never opened — and unlocks short epiphany lines as milestones are reached.
- The Examined Path is an opt-in mode (offered when you start a run) that adds brief plural ethical readings after significant choices, for players who want the philosophy made explicit rather than left implicit.
- Typical session length: a full run takes about 20–30 minutes; ANAMNESIS is designed to be finished, replayed, and abandoned mid-corridor without penalty — quitting and resuming is always safe.
- Accessibility: reduced motion, high-contrast text, a typewriter toggle, and a low-quality renderer tier are all in Settings. The layout is supported down to 1280×720 at up to 130% browser zoom, and the interface is fully mirrored for Farsi (RTL).
| Prologue | The Waiting Room |
| Act I — The Shallows | the wallet, the dinner table, the promotion, the beggar's math, the quiet alarm, Buridan's queue, the reference letter → the burning photograph |
| Act II — The Machinery | the trolley junction, the experience machine, the ship, Pascal's casino, Omelas, the Chinese Room, Newcomb's annex, the veil of ignorance → the Euthyphro courtroom |
| Act III — The Mirror | the teleporter, the memory editor, the small polite room, the deathbed, Mary's room, the butterfly's dream, the swampman (and a secret door, for those who look) → the free-will betting parlor |
| Act IV — The Threshold | the boulder, the last message, the door that asks |
| Act V — The Understory (optional, hidden) | the archive, the unchosen, the echo — a detour beneath Act IV for runs that have earned it |
Also part of The Vestibule — see ANAMNESIS above for the collection's shared engine.
A roguelike about relationships at their breaking points.
You check in, at 3 a.m., to a hotel that isn't on any map — the Interval, the night between when it happened and when everyone finds out. Every room on every floor holds a relationship mid-crisis, and you don't watch it happen — you wake up inside it, as one of the people living it. Across a run you'll be, in different rooms, the tempted, the betrayed, the betrayer, the third person, and the friend who knew and said nothing: culpability rotates by design, because perspective-taking is the one thing research shows reliably softens how people handle conflict.
Your guide is the Night Porter: courteous, unshockable, tired in a centuries-deep way — his one visual tell (a wedding band on the wrong hand) goes unexplained until a hidden ending.
Content note: ages 15–35 are staged across the floors. Minors' scenes (Act I) are strictly non-explicit — emotional and digital dynamics only. Adult scenes (Acts II–IV) are frank about attraction, sex, and their consequences, in the register of a prestige drama, but never graphic — every scene cuts at the threshold. As with ANAMNESIS, nothing here is a substitute for real support: if any of this is your actual life right now, a game is not the tool. This same note (plus the themes list and a purpose statement) shows automatically in-game the first time you begin a run, and is re-viewable any time from the title menu's "Before you begin" button.
Status: complete. The Prologue, all four acts (Act I: 7 rooms + gate · Act II: 8 rooms + gate · Act III: 8 rooms + a secret room + gate · Act IV: 3 rooms including the final gate), the Records Office (3 optional rooms for returning players), and all 7 endings are real, authored content — a full run is fully playable start to finish, including its ending, today. All 4 keepsakes have both an earn room and a spend room. Its own 12 epiphanies, Ledger denominators, and codex notes are computed from LIMERENCE's own rules throughout — the pack-parameterization pass is done.
npm run dev:limerence # play LIMERENCE at the printed local URLLIMERENCE has its own visual and audio identity, not a reskinned ANAMNESIS: a sodium-amber/corridor-teal hotel palette with an optional light/dark theme toggle (Settings → Display), minor-leaning generative music resolving to a held major chord at the ending, and its own door and panel geometry — a thinner, cooler steel-dark door frame and sans-serif, asymmetrically-cut panels meant to read as 21st-century and quietly unsettling rather than gothic.
npm test # engine + content tests: endings, graph reachability, reducers, i18n coverage, content lint
npm run build # type-check + production bundle (ANAMNESIS only, dist/) — dev convenience, not what any release uses
npm run build:anamnesis # type-check + production bundle → dist-web/anamnesis/
npm run build:limerence # type-check + production bundle → dist-web/limerence/
npm run build:web # both of the above, plus the rozcestník → dist-web/index.html — what GitHub Pages AND the Windows build use
npm run preview # serve the production build- Stack: Vite + TypeScript + Three.js. No framework; DOM overlay for all text (crisp and accessible), WebGL for the scene, parametric geometry only — no downloaded assets.
- Content is pure data (
src/content/rooms/*): rooms, beats, choices, effects, field notes. The engine (src/engine/*) never hardcodes a room. - Saves are local (
localStorage) behind an async, server-shapedSaveStoreinterface (src/engine/saveStore.ts) so a real backend can drop in later without touching game code. Profiles can also be exported/imported as JSON from Settings → Data. - Fully localized into English, Czech, Farsi (RTL), German, and French for both ANAMNESIS and LIMERENCE, coverage-tested per pack — ANAMNESIS additionally ships two text voices (an original v1 and a rewritten v2); LIMERENCE ships v2 only (its single, later-designed voice).
dist/,dist-web/, andrelease/are build output and are gitignored — nothing built is committed.
A standalone Windows build — The Vestibule, both ANAMNESIS and LIMERENCE in one portable .exe (no installer needed — just download and run) — is published on the Releases page. It's built by GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/release-windows.yml), wrapping npm run build:web's output (both packs + the rozcestník) in Electron: the app opens on the same door-choice screen as the browser version, and picking a door navigates the one window into that game (Alt+Left returns to the choice).
The reliable way to trigger a release build is manually, from the Actions tab: open the "Build and release Windows EXE" workflow, click Run workflow, and optionally supply a tag_name (it defaults to nightly-<run number> if left blank). Pushing a v* tag also triggers the same workflow, but tag pushes aren't available in every environment this project is developed from, so workflow_dispatch is the path actually exercised and kept working.
A GitHub Pages build deploys automatically on every published release (.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml, running npm run build:web) — see the browser link at the top of this README. The deployed site's root is the rozcestník (landing/index.html); /anamnesis/ and /limerence/ are each pack's own independent build, assembled by scripts/assemble-web-dist.mjs.