Overview
Mechanis Obscura is a first-person psychological escape-room thriller game, honored with 2 HEGA Day Zero Awards (Grand Prix & Audience Choice, 2025). It fuses the intensity of real escape rooms with the atmosphere of early 2000s horror films. Featuring FMV cutscenes filmed in the heart of Thessaloniki, intricate puzzle mechanisms, and ARG elements that bleed beyond the screen, the game challenges players to survive a trial they never meant to join.
The story begins in August 2025. Late at night, while browsing forgotten online forums, you unknowingly enroll in something you should never have touched. Days later, you are abducted by a secret underground organization and forced into a mechanical labyrinth hidden beneath the city. Every door locked, every mechanism ticking, every scene whispering that you were chosen for reasons still obscured.
This is not a story of choice. There are no branching paths or alternate fates. Mechanis Obscura is built on one relentless truth: escape or vanish. Along the way, you’ll uncover fragments of the organization’s presence in Thessaloniki — sometimes hidden deep underground, sometimes standing in plain sight. Two different endings reveal how far the trial stretches into both local history and fictional lore.
With its blend of puzzles, live-action sequences, and a suffocating atmosphere, Mechanis Obscura blurs the line between game and reality. What begins as an abduction soon becomes a descent into something larger, where the most obscure machinery might be the human mind itself.
Key Features
Psychological Horror – A thriller inspired by early 2000s underground horror and their unsettling mood.
Escape-Room Adventure – Navigate gears, locks, and lethal contraptions.
Mind-Bending Puzzles – Intricate mechanisms and escape-room-style riddles that twist perception as much as intellect.
Live-Action Storytelling – FMV and live-action sequences woven into gameplay for a chilling, cinematic feel.
Deep Web & Abduction Themes – Uncover how you were taken—and why.
ARG Elements – Extend the experience beyond the game into hidden trails and real-world puzzles.
Atmospheric Exploration – Every corridor hides secrets, every choice leaves a mark.
Rooted in Reality – A narrative set in Thessaloniki, beginning August 2025.
