SOMBRAS: negative frames
A first-person narrative photography game about identity, memory, and the things that follow you in the dark.
Step into the role of Shiomi, a Japanese-Spanish photography student trapped in a twisted reflection of her 2000s Japanese hometown. Take pictures of the impossible, survive unsettling encounters, and piece together the fragments of her broken self.
A story of self-rediscovery
Shiomi Alterio, a Japanese-Spanish photography student, lives with her father in a quiet Japanese town after her parents’ recent divorce. Far from the life in Europe she was forced to leave behind, she turns to photography as a way to understand herself.
One night, Shiomi is swallowed by a dark dimension made of familiar streets, hungry shadows, and girls who look a little too much like her.
To return home, she must face the fragments of herself she has tried to ignore.
Find beauty in the grotesque
Your camera is more than a tool. It is the only way to make sense of the world around you.
Take striking photos of unusual sights, develop your film roll, gain inspiration, and upgrade your camera to uncover the secrets hidden throughout Shiomi’s liminal town.
Take photos of the impossible
Capture strange scenes, hidden details, and unsettling moments.
Develop your film
Turn your shots into inspiration and progression.
Upgrade your camera
Improve your equipment to reveal new secrets.
Uncover a liminal world
Explore atmospheric streets shaped by memory, fear, and identity.
Escape the broken mirror
Befriend alternate versions of yourself, run from repressed terrors, collect occult trinkets, and unlock the strange doors blocking your way forward.
This is not just a place to escape from.
It is a place built from everything Shiomi has not yet faced.
Meet Shiomi
Shiomi is caught between places, languages, memories, and versions of herself.
As a photography student with Japanese and Spanish roots, she must navigate the aftermath of her parents’ divorce, the life she left behind in Europe, and the dark reflection of a town that seems to know her better than she knows herself.
SOMBRAS: negative frames
A first-person narrative photography game about identity, memory, and the things that follow you in the dark.
Step into the role of Shiomi, a Japanese-Spanish photography student trapped in a twisted reflection of her 2000s Japanese hometown. Take pictures of the impossible, survive unsettling encounters, and piece together the fragments of her broken self.
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