Nimbus Games

CHIYO is a first person, escape room styled, single player, puzzle game set in a Edo era Japan horror background and in the same universe of MALICE.

Play as Idate Chiyo, a newly recruited paranormal investigator of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s Magical Arcane Division, tasked with her first assignment to investigate some strange occurrences reported to have originated from an abandoned mansion on the forested interior of the small coastal city of Gōtsu in Shimane Prefecture. Within the mansion, Chiyo encounters strange and malevolent spirits, devious contraptions and puzzles and a dark family history that will threaten her survival.

Escape Room Style Puzzle Game

Challenge your wits and your nerves with escape room style puzzles and ghostly presence haunting your every step.

Assume the Role of Idate Chiyo

Activate unique supernatural powers allowing players to pierce and dive into the paranormal realm as a paranormal investigator of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s Magical Arcane Division.

Engaging Storyline

Uncover the mysteries of an abandoned mansion, a powerful family’s dark dealings and the consequences of love and sacrifice.

Immersive Horror

Delve into atmospheric nightmares of an ancient Edo era mansion and uncover all it’s mysteries and malevolence.

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Escape Room Style

Players’ main obstacle in the game will be a variety of puzzles.
Logical, lateral, decryption, navigational and old fashioned mazes all flavored with a 2 player cooperative twist.

Puzzles are modelled after real life escape rooms but unrestricted by physical constraints.

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2 Player Coop

Malice is a 2 player coop mandatory experience meant to be played with a friend.

One would think they should be quite safe with a friend.

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Atmosphere

Malice focuses on building an environment with atmosphere and audio
that aims to completely immerse the player into the game world.

Game art is made with slight mix of realism and styling in mind
to give the players a sense of the fantastical and uncanniness,
hoping to make their experience more dream-like or rather nightmare like.

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Story and Lore

Unique storyline that spans across eras and players
are dropped right into the center of the story.

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3 Acts

Malice will consist of 3 chapters/acts. Each with 1 hour or more worth of gameplay and puzzles.
The game will take players to different locations of an ancient Edo era settlement
and ending in an unspeakable dimension where something more sinister lies waiting.

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MALICE is a 2 player escape room styled game centered on exploration and cooperative puzzle solving with a Japanese horror theme.

Players play a pair of modern day travelers to Japan visiting a fictional temple. In an earthquake event, the players are plunged underground into darkness where a mansion lies dormant waiting.

Players must navigate through the ancient house discovering it’s secrets while surviving it’s malicious inhabitant lurking around every corridor and room.

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