"Dissolution of My Self" BL Horror Launches on Steam September 4
The game inverts the standard memory-recovery hook: the player's job is to help the protagonist forget, making the player the agent of his self-erasure, and that structure is the work's central device.
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Dissolution of My Self, the BL psychological horror ADV from indie team Pop Elephant Studio, launched September 4 on Steam for PC. Players click daily objects in a rented apartment to unearth memories of fallen prince Hector and his uncle Matvey, but the task is to help Hector forget, erasing his self. It supports Japanese voice and text, costs 790 yen with a launch 10 percent discount to 711 yen, and has a free demo.
Hector is voiced by Irasa Nettle, Matvey by Tetsuhito Furukawa, with Japanese voice and text support. The game's copy reads "Power structures are dismantled. People too are dismantled."
Exploration order changes what Hector recalls first, but the ending is singular. Whether he is on medication changes how events are told, so his narration cannot be trusted. Objects touched gradually blur and lose function, eroding the room and the memories in the player's chosen order.
The horror comes from the closed space, exile, and the distortion of kinship and affection between the two men. There are no monsters, jump scares, or combat. The game warns for self-harm, psychological manipulation, boundary-crossing intimacy between relatives, regression, violence, substance abuse, and trauma.
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