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- 3.5/5
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- Price
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2025 · Jesse Makkonen · Adventure · Indie
Without a Dawn
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring a hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art developed by award-winning Finnish solo developer Jesse Makkonen (DISTRAINT -series, Afterdream, Heal).
- Released
- 19 May 2025
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- AdventureIndieVisual novel
- Developers
- Jesse Makkonen
- Publishers
- ClickteamJesse Makkonen
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Text
- Themes
- Horror
- Engine
- Clickteam Fusion
- Age ratings
- PEGI 16ESRB M
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Mexico), Turkish, Ukrainian
- Features
- Family SharingFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam achievements
- Time to beat
- 1hmain story1hwith extras1hcompletionist
›Story
She seeks refuge from her constant, restless thoughts in a remote cabin. There are no distractions in the profound silence and isolation, but the eerie sound of the cold wind weaving through the trees keeps her awake. In the dark stillness of the night, the silence has begun to take on physical form.
Without a Dawn masterfully immerses the player in introspection, intertwining psychological and philosophical elements to create a narrative that blurs the line between reality and fiction.
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