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House of Tides
A first-person psychological sci-fi horror game set inside a forgotten theatre beneath a drowned world.

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Quick Facts

TITLE
House of Tides

DEVELOPER
Blur Garden

PUBLISHER
Blur Garden

CREATOR
Elio

GENRE
First-person psychological sci-fi horror

PLATFORM
Windows PC / Steam

RELEASE DATE
To be announced

PLAYERS
Single-player

ENGINE
Unreal Engine

LANGUAGES
English and Spanish planned for interface and subtitles

LOCATION
Tokyo, Japan

WEBSITE
blurgarden.com

GAME WEBSITE
houseoftidesgame.com

STEAM
Coming Soon

KICKSTARTER
Coming Soon

PRESS CONTACT
[email protected]

Descriptions

One-line Description

A first-person psychological sci-fi horror game set inside a forgotten theatre beneath a drowned world.

Short Description

Descend into a shifting labyrinth of memories, imagined lives, and fractured identities in this first-person psychological sci-fi horror game about grief, guilt, and obsession, set inside a forgotten theatre beneath a drowned world.

Long Description

House of Tides is a first-person psychological sci-fi horror game set inside a forgotten theatre beneath a drowned world.

You follow an anomalous signal into a theatre that has survived for centuries below the ocean. Its active systems open its spaces into fragments of plays, memories, imagined lives, damaged archives, and worlds preserved beyond their time.

Built around exploration, perception, diegetic interaction, sound-driven tension, and narrative discovery, House of Tides invites players to move through shifting spaces, examine objects, read fragments, interact with obsolete systems, track sounds, and find a way out.

Horror develops through atmosphere, sensory dissonance, silence, spatial distortion, intimate memories, and the gradual collapse between fiction and reality.

Key Features

• First-person psychological sci-fi horror set inside a forgotten theatre beneath a drowned world.
• A shifting labyrinth of memories, imagined lives, and fractured identities.
• Gameplay focused on exploration, atmosphere, perception, sound, and narrative discovery.
• Diegetic interaction with obsolete systems, recordings, documents, objects, and environmental fragments.
• Surreal spaces shaped by theatrical works, damaged memories, fictional characters, and unstable projections.
• Sound-driven tension built through distant voices, underwater distortions, echoes, recordings, music, breathing, and silence.
• A compact authored horror experience without a traditional combat focus.

Coverage Angles

• A first-person psychological sci-fi horror game set inside a forgotten theatre beneath a drowned world.
• A solo-developed narrative horror project by Elio, a Spanish 3D artist and actor based in Tokyo.
• A game where theatre, imagined lives, damaged archives, and personal memory form a shifting labyrinth.
• A sound-driven horror experience where listening, pressure, silence, and distortion shape the player’s understanding of the world.
• A human-made project: no generative AI is used to create final in-game art, writing, voices, music, animation, environments, or narrative content.A Kickstarter campaign planned around a playable vertical slice, allowing players, press, and creators to experience the tone before backing.

Media Assets

The downloadable press kit includes:

• Screenshots
• Key art
• Logo files
• Trailer files
• Short video clips
• Studio information
• Game descriptions
• Quick facts
• Contact information

All images are provided for editorial, press, creator, and promotional coverage of Blur Garden and House of Tides.

Please do not modify logos, add misleading text, crop key art in a way that changes its meaning, or use the assets to imply endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship without written permission.

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Review & Creator Build Requests

A playable vertical slice of House of Tides is planned for campaign and preview purposes.

Journalists, streamers, YouTubers, curators, and content creators can request access using the form below.

Please include:

• Name
• Outlet / channel
• Website or channel link
• Email
• Country / region
• Type of coverage
• Expected publication or video date
• Whether you need embargo information
• Any technical requirements

[Request Preview Access]

Access is provided at Blur Garden’s discretion. Builds may be subject to embargo, recording guidance, or technical limitations depending on the stage of development.

Interviews

Interview requests with Elio are welcome.

Possible topics include:

• House of Tides
• Solo development
• Psychological horror
• Theatre and game design
• Sound-driven narrative
• Human-made creative production
• Independent development from Tokyo

For interviews, contact:
[email protected]

Human-Made Project Statement

House of Tides is being created as a human-made game.

I do not use generative AI to produce final in-game art, writing, voices, music, animation, environments, or narrative content. The final creative work of this project is authored, shaped, and built by human hands.

For me, generative tools may be useful only for early desk research, organization, or reference exploration, but not as a replacement for authored work, credited artists, or final creative production.

This matters especially for a game about memory, identity, performance, and what remains of us.

Contact

For press, creator requests, interviews, review access, or additional materials:

Elio / Blur Garden
[email protected]

Website: blurgarden.com
Steam: Coming Soon
Kickstarter: Coming Soon
YouTube: Blur Garden on Youtube
X: House of Tides on X
Instagram: Blur Garden on Instagram

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