Obscura
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Twelve strangers, each haunted by a past they would do anything to erase, receive a mysterious invitation. It offers them a chance at the impossible: redemption. The price is simply to play a game.
They arrive at Obscura, a surreal facility where the laws of physics are merely suggestions and psychological warfare is the main event. Among them are a brilliant architect consumed by guilt, a driven journalist who traded truth for fame, and a haunted soldier grappling with an impossible choice. Though strangers, they are all bound by the ghosts of their past-secrets the game seems to know intimately.
The rules are simple: survive. But in Obscura, survival is a complex dance of trust and betrayal. The environment itself is a living entity, reacting to their fear, rewarding their deception, and etching their failures into its very architecture. As alliances form and then shatter, the challenges escalate from clever puzzles to soul-crushing moral dilemmas. Players are forced to confront their deepest regrets, weaponize each other's secrets, and ultimately question their own sanity as reality itself fractures around them.
The true purpose of the game is the ultimate revelation, a truth far more shocking than any challenge they've faced. To win isn't just to survive-it's to decide the fate of the game itself. When every choice is a trap and every ally is a potential traitor, who can you afford to be?
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