Hi everyone! We’re Solar Veil Studio, and we’ve just released the Chapter One beta of Don’t Wake the Dark, our angled top-down horror game.

You play as a little girl searching for her missing family. Explore an empty home and follow the trail into rain-soaked woods, carrying an oil lantern that keeps creatures at a distance. Your fuel is running down, and a strong gust of wind can leave you in the dark.

The demo brings together lantern oil, changing wind, family clues, voiced scenes, and encounters built around what you can hear beyond the light.

Download the free Windows demo on itch.io
Windows 64-bit · Chapter One beta v0.17. Extract the entire ZIP, then run DontWakeTheDark.exe.

This is an early beta, and we’d love feedback on the tension, whether the oil and wind feel fair, and any places where the next objective is unclear. Most of all: would you want to keep playing?

We’ve also posted our first devlog with the beta details. You can leave feedback on the game page or here.

Thank you for giving our first chapter a try.
Leave a light on.
— Solar Veil Studio