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Stuck in the Present

About this game

Just as Faye and Rich’s painful memories resurface, the two friends are ensnared in the distorted corridors of a decrepit subway station beneath a city still foreign to Faye. To find any path through, they need to decipher all that they have so desperately tried to forget.

Illustration and Reflection

Discover and illustrate meaningful objects and people to decipher Faye’s history.

Living Memories

Explore living memories of Faye and Rich’s past as they manifest around the stations.

Choice and Change

Forge a new relationship between Faye and Rich as they collide with their hidden traumas and recent frictions.

Dissipation of Agency

Navigate Faye’s anxieties as distance between her and Rich propagates greater dangers around the station.

Close-up Clues

Interact with objects and structures more intimately to decipher their connection to Faye’s past, or the distortion of the station.

Face the past—it’s the only way forward.

Achievements

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Unresolved

Unresolved

7.6%

Depart the station with Rich, but with a torn friendship.

Unsalvaged

Unsalvaged

8.2%

Leave Rich behind.

Don’t Look Back

Don’t Look Back

35.5%

Connect the chalice drawing to your past.

The Burden

The Burden

38.4%

Complete chapter five of Stuck in the Present.

Unshackled

Unshackled

40.8%

Depart the station with Rich and a rejuvenated friendship.

Stuck in the Present

Stuck in the Present is a 3D side-scrolling psychological horror title where two friends relive painful memories within the uncanny depths of twisting subway stations in a large, unfamiliar city.

Developer

Dusk Wave Arts LLC

Publisher

Embersail Studios

Release Date

19 September, 2025

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