Those Who Remain

Dormont turns an ordinary night of regret into a suffocating psychological horror ordeal, where darkness is not merely an absence of light but a living threat. You play Edward Turner, a husband and father who arrives at the Golden Oak Motel intending to end an affair, only to find the town collapsing into supernatural chaos. Missing residents, silent streets, and distorted realities gradually expose the sins buried beneath Dormont’s quiet exterior. The mood is grim and uneasy rather than action-heavy, leaning on dread, guilt, and the fear of what waits just outside the glow of a lamp.

Most of the experience unfolds in first person as Edward searches abandoned locations, follows story clues, solves environmental puzzles, and navigates routes blocked by lethal shadows. Light sources become your primary survival tool: street lamps, switches, generators, headlights, and other illuminated spaces create temporary safe paths through hostile areas. Several sequences shift Edward into a warped parallel version of Dormont, using portal-like transitions and altered environments to turn familiar places into puzzles. Progression is narrative-driven, with investigations and supernatural encounters pushing the story forward, while moral decisions ask you to judge the fates of people connected to the town’s tragedies.

What makes Those Who Remain distinctive is its willingness to make light management part of exploration instead of treating it as visual decoration. Its small-town American setting and reality-bending horror recall supernatural TV dramas, while its slow pace and first-person investigation bring it closer to titles such as Layers of Fear or Observer than to combat-focused survival horror. The visual design occasionally favors atmosphere over detail, but foggy streets, empty homes, and unnatural silhouettes create a consistently tense sense of isolation. It suits players who want a compact, story-led horror game with puzzles and moral ambiguity, especially those who prefer unsettling suspense over constant chases and gunfire.