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Is Those Who Remain worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want a story-led first-person horror game with moral choices
- Puzzle fans who enjoy exploring connected realities and manipulating light
- Horror players interested in supernatural mysteries and multiple endings
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking combat-focused action rather than exploration, puzzles, and narrative decisions
- Players looking for open-ended systems or repeated-session progression instead of a directed story
- Players who do not want psychological horror centered on darkness, sanity, and moral consequences
Our take on Those Who Remain
Its focus on a directed psychological-horror story gives up the breadth of combat systems and open-ended exploration found in action-heavy adventures. Progress instead centers on moving through connected realities, solving puzzles, and making decisions that shape the ending.
What is Those Who Remain?
Those Who Remain is a first-person psychological horror adventure set in Dormont, a town distorted by darkness and a split in reality.
Players guide Edward through the town and an interconnected alternate dimension, using light sources to open routes and investigate its mysteries. Puzzles connect the two worlds, while the story examines family, loss, mistakes, morality, and sanity. Decisions about the people encountered can condemn or spare them, shaping Edward’s fate across multiple endings. The narrative follows Edward as he arrives at the Golden Oak Motel while trying to resolve a secret affair, then becomes caught in the horrors spreading through Dormont.
How Those Who Remain plays
- 01Light-Based Navigation
- Light sources clear routes through areas affected by the encroaching darkness.
- 02Dual-Reality Exploration
- Dormont is connected to an alternate dimension that contains additional mysteries and puzzles.
- 03Moral Decisions
- Choices involving Dormont’s lost souls affect Edward’s fate and lead to multiple endings.
- 04Psychological Horror Story
- The narrative follows Edward through themes of family, loss, mistakes, morality, and sanity.
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Those Who Remain: platforms & release
Is Those Who Remain worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want a story-led first-person horror game with moral choices. Skip it if: players seeking combat-focused action rather than exploration, puzzles, and narrative decisions.
Where can I download Those Who Remain?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Those Who Remain's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Those Who Remain on?
Windows only.
