Q&A · 12 May 2021

Why are there no faces, and why are the letters mixed?

Players see the world through the eyes of the main character, who lives with several conditions that make everyday life more challenging.

One of them is prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness. People with this condition can have difficulty recognising other people’s faces and even their own.

To convey that experience, the game removes most facial features from its characters while preserving distinctive details that the hero might use to recognise someone.

The hero also lives with a form of dyslexia that makes written language harder to read and understand.

Letters on signs are therefore rearranged throughout the game. The intention is to slow down the player’s reading and make the environment feel less immediately legible, just as it does to the protagonist.