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DESOLUS

Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.

Released
Developer
Mark J. Mayers
Platforms
PC, macOS

Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game.

An enigmatic cataclysm has fractured reality, opening portals which lead to other times.

Explore the past and future versions of an expansive city.

Manipulate Black Holes to Travel Through Time

Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes, traveling back and forth through time to make the city's architecture whole again. Challenge your spatial thinking skills while navigating distorted realities as time becomes increasingly more unstable.

Use Technology from a Lost Era

Activate holograms to move massive portals between floors of crumbled cathedrals,

allowing you to traverse structures which only partially exist at one time.

Save the City from Ruin

Partner with the city's mysterious guardian to prevent a cataclysm threatening to merge past and future.

Unravel a haunting narrative to save the City of Desolus from complete annihilation.

Desolus has been selected for several festivals, including

an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

How the launch is going

Ranked 10th of 376 games released on 15 Oct. 5 Steam reviews so far: too few to judge. At its busiest, 9 people were playing at once.

Steam reviews +16 reviews/day over 8h
0 5
Peak players +28 players/day over 8h
0 9
  • 9 Peak players
  • 5 Positive
  • 5 Steam reviews