Blank Traces
A downloadable game for Windows
🧠 Blank Traces
Before the last memory fades...
Welcome to Blank Traces, an environmental storytelling experience where you step into the fragile and fragmented mind of someone living with Alzheimer’s disease.
🕯️ In this game, you won’t just watch the story —
you will live it, feel it, and slowly lose it.
As memories fade, spaces become unfamiliar.
Objects lose their meaning.
And reality starts to blur.
Your goal is not to win.
Your goal is to understand.
🎮 About the Game
Blank Traces is a short, story-driven atmospheric experience focused on:
🧩 Environmental storytelling
🧠 Memory loss & confusion
🏚️ Familiar places becoming strange
😔 Emotional and psychological tension
🕰️ Slow, immersive exploration
There is no HUD.
No objective markers.
Only you, the environment, and what remains of the memories.
🕹️ Controls
⌨️ WASD — Move
🖱️ E — Interact
💡 H — Hint
⚠️ Content Warning
This game deals with:
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Alzheimer’s disease
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Memory loss
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Psychological discomfort
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Emotional themes
Some players may find it emotionally heavy.
💬 Developer’s Note
This project was created to help people empathize with what it feels like to slowly lose your connection to reality and memories.
If this game makes you feel a little lost, a little confused, a little empty…
…then it’s doing its job.
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