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NOBODY LEAVES - PS1 Style Dark Procedural Roguelite FPS/RPG

A topic by Radioactiv13 created 14 days ago Views: 1,043 Replies: 6
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NOBODY LEAVES
Descend into the darkness. Find the elevator. Nobody leaves.

Face the darkness in Nobody Leaves—a ruthless, atmospheric retro FPS with deep roguelite mechanics. The abandoned industrial complex you enter is still running, but the people inside ceased to be human a long time ago. Your objective is brutally simple: reach the lower floor, find the elevator, and survive. There is no fixed path, and your survival is never guaranteed.

   A Lost Gem of the PS1 Era This is not a modern shooter with a cheap retro filter slapped on top. Nobody Leaves is a rigorous tribute to the golden era of the original PlayStation, building tension through the design philosophy and limitations of the 90s. Low-poly models, pixelated textures, chunky geometry, and heavy fog create a dense, claustrophobic atmosphere. The game faithfully recreates that specific unease of sitting in front of a CRT television, booting up an unknown horror title, and having no idea what awaits on the other side of the screen.

   Massive Procedural Content and Endless Replayability Every descent presents a completely new challenge. Nobody Leaves is driven by advanced procedural generation, ensuring a massive volume of content and practically infinite replayability:

  • Shifting Architecture: Every floor and room layout is generated randomly. Memorizing maps is useless—you must adapt to the complex anew with every run.
  • A Limitless Arsenal: Weapons and armor are also procedurally generated, resulting in thousands of unique combinations. Discover everything from classic firearms to experimental elemental gear utilizing fire, cold, toxins, or radiation that dynamically interact with the environment and enemies.
  • Unpredictable Threats: Feral survivors, mutated workers, and burning soldiers. You never know what combination of enemies awaits behind the next door. Death means losing your gear and having to rebuild your combat potential from scratch on your next attempt.

   Light is a Luxury, Noise is Death The complex is drowned in darkness, and your flashlight has a strictly limited battery life. Sometimes, the only source of light is the muzzle flash of your rifle. However, combat requires cold calculation—firearms are incredibly loud. Every shot attracts the attention of whatever is lurking in the adjacent rooms. Enemies react to sound, track you through corridors, and actively hunt you. Often, the most effective survival strategy is holding your fire and slipping away into the shadows.

   Progression and Risk Management As you explore, you gain levels and select powerful perks—ranging from kill streak bonuses and melee modifiers to increased mobility. This allows you to shape your playstyle on the fly. Each floor also hides INTEL detailing the collapse of the facility. To secure this lore, you must reach the terminal by the elevator and transmit the data before you die.


   Atmospheric Horror and Elite Threats The lower floors harbor armored, volatile, and frenzied enemy variants, while somewhere deep within the bowels of the complex waits the Brimstone Colossus. The game consistently rejects cheap jumpscares in favor of a thick, oppressive atmosphere. Fear here is born from sudden silence, a flickering fluorescent light, and the unshakable feeling that something hungry is watching you from the fog.


   A Full-Scale Production Available in Your Browser This massive, procedurally generated world runs smoothly right in your web browser. The project completely bypasses the need for installations or multi-gigabyte downloads. One click is all it takes to drop into a fully realized nightmare. The game is in active development, constantly expanding with new levels, enemies, weaponry, and mechanics.


Descend. Find the elevator. Nobody leaves.


Call for Audio Talent: Sound Designers and Composers Needed While the game's mechanics are built around the concept that noise equals death, the industrial complex is currently dead silent. At this stage of development, Nobody Leaves has absolutely no sound effects or music. We are actively seeking individuals who create or have created SFX and dark, ambient tracks to join the project. If you understand the PS1-era aesthetic and know how to build dread and tension purely through audio, we are looking for you to bring this nightmare to life.

This is seriously impressive, the schema-validated JSON/ASCII approach and seeded RNG are great foundations. Smart move keeping the gameplay logic separate from Three.js too, must make testing way less painful. Any particular pain point that pushed you toward that separation?

Anyway, I'm a composer, atmospheric/adaptive stuff mostly, happy to help on the audio side if you want to explore it, no pressure on payment given where things are at, I love this type of game so it would be a pleasure figuring it out.

If you want a reference point, here's some recent work:

https://x.com/ph4rosound/status/2064733056703799623
https://x.com/ph4rosound/status/2039254947716292906

I have also shipped 2 game jams here on Itch but given the short time frame of Jams(around a week) I am not 100% thrilled with the results though.

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Thats sounds/ambient/music is purely awesome, i will add today gigantic update on game, now it looks like pure psx style game with gore/horror/quake atmosphere. Right now im working on mobs, but im truly missing sounds and music. 


Can you share me your discord name, so i can reach you?

I sent you a friend request

Giga update above! :D

I'd like to support your game with a soundtrack. I can share with you my work to see if it meets your expectations. I played through the game and I feel like what I produce will fit the atmosphere of this game very well.

Please, reach me on discord. login: radioactiv13