Meridian

Four months of bad sleep, but not the ordinary kind — you wake at exactly ten past four with the distinct sense of having been somewhere else, and that somewhere else was wet. The premise stays clipped and strange rather than explained, and the game seems fine leaving it that way.

Whatever the gateway actually is, the setup points toward real-world scenarios rather than fantasy ones: an older woman, encounters that read like memory or dream more than staged scenes, built through text and choices rather than illustration. It's a sandbox built on real footage instead of drawn art, so the framing does more work than any cutscene would.

Play runs through text-based navigation and decision menus in an RPG-style structure, moving you between scenes and choices rather than dropping you into set-piece animations. Given the ten-past-four hook, the tone leans unsettled more than playful, and this is a first release, so the loop is still bare-bones by design rather than by accident.