A time-looping text adventure. 

Explore an abandoned village. 

You wake up in an apartment of a deserted village. As you are exploring, you find the community which was once here referred to themselves as "The Order of Perennial Mortals."

Find the answers.

Learn the secrets of the village and its residents. Follow the clues to search for the source of your time loop.

Break the loop.

"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."

Controls:

  • Type your commands
  • Press or Hold X to skip
  • Double click to toggle skip

Music by Felipe Jun Iglesia

Listen to the soundtrack here: https://soundcloud.com/fjiglesia/sets/the-8th-hour

More information

Download

Download
the-8th-hour-windows-v1.0.4.zip 79 MB
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the-8th-hour-linux-v1.0.4.zip 81 MB

Install instructions

Note: Web saves are not persistent across updates. It is strongly recommended to download the game and play it natively on Windows or Linux.

Warning: Since version 1.0.2, future versions of the game no longer recognize saves from before 1.0.2.

  • Windows solution: If you are using the Windows build and want to recover the old saves, move all the files from "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\The Eighth Hour" to "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\The 8th Hour"
  • Web solution: Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to recover saves on the web version. Luckily, this game is primarily knowledge-based, so the save data is not necessary in continuing a playthrough. If you would like to match your new save data with the previous save data, you just need to revisit the "devices" of the characters which you have already visited (successfully log back into them).

Development log

Comments

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Grey The Possum239 days ago(+1)

Very interesting and well put together game. I can tell a lot of time was put into this! Thanks for making this :D

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