Something Feels Off (Discontinued)

2.0.0: The 75-hour descent

Reworked progression around a 75-hour playthrough, with quieter early phases and stronger effects later on.

Horror changes

• Replaced debug and horror chat messages with sounds and visual cues in the world.
• Added a pull-back effect to camera distortion and a follower renderer during distortion events.
• Added figures at the edge of your vision that vanish when you look at them.
• Torches can go out and doors can open on their own.
• Dreams and hallucinations begin after five or more hours. Early text corruption is subtler.
• Replaced helpful effects such as night vision with horror debuffs.
• Horror systems now adjust to player behavior.

Technical changes

• Reorganized spawning, world effects, and meta-horror into separate systems.
• Added a scheduler that runs systems according to the current phase, reducing tick overhead by up to 80% during active horror phases.
• Batched events to reduce network usage.
• Improved memory handling and cleanup, including fixes for leaks during long sessions.
• Replaced hardcoded values with named constants to make configuration easier.
• Added confirmation steps to the world-deletion system.
• Fixed occasional crashes caused by static method conflicts.