They Were Taken

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🎮 Core game concept 

Working title: They Were

📃 Genre

2D First-person exploration

Narrative Mystery

Inventory / Puzzle

🌍 Setting

Rural open areas: farms, bridges, small town edges, petrol station

Everything abandoned mid-life

🧠 Core gameplay loop

Explore empty world (no enemies)

Find notes / radios / recordings

📋 Collect items:

food/drink/fuel/tools/keys/parts/more...

🛠️ Build/Fix broken infrastructure:

bridge repair → unlock new area

 generator → power building

windows → keep warmth

coop → keep chickens

workshop table → make improvement → tools → weapons

🎲 Puzzles/challenges/quizzes/minigames 

Broken bridge blocks path

Need: items → repair bridge → unlock area

Fallen tree blocks path

Need:  items→ cut tree → gather wood/sticks → unlock area

Abandoned generator 

Need: items→ wire → leads to ending scene

more...

😶 Tone design 

Slowly uncover story fragments till final narrative reveal

Peaceful but eerie/no monsters/just absence

“Nothing is trying to hurt the player — the absence is the horror"

That’s what makes this game memorable #survival #puzzle #hiddenobjects