Dear Brother

About this game

Dear Brother is an original horror adventure game planned and developed over the summer of 2020. It's heavily inspired by other Japanese horror RPGs such as Ib and The Witch's House, and was designed very much so to mimic the feel of older RPGMaker games. While not as unforgiving as some of its inspirations, death *is* in its design, so make sure to save often!

The story of Dear Brother takes place in the childhood home of a character named Audrey, who had decided to return home after finishing her studies. However, after waking up from a nap, strange things begin to happen around her... Audrey can't make out whether the events she's experiencing are hallucinations or memories. She knows she's forgetting something, but she doesn't know what.

• Explore and solve puzzles in an atmospheric horror setting
  
• Collect hidden mementos to unlock a secret ending
  
• Examinining objects around you may reveal more about the story
  
• Several Steam achievements to be unlocked
  
• Controller support has been added as of 31 May, 2022!

Dear brother uses some sound effect samples from Freesound. For a full list, visit the game's page on our blog.

Latest news

• Patch Notes·31 May 2022Official

  Update Notes For May 31

  Hello everyone! It’s officially been one year since we released Dear Brother on Steam. Since then, we’ve had the pleasure of watching many of you play through our game… and it’s been a blast seeing everyone’s reactions. To those of you who have played and enjoyed the game (and even those who played and maybe didn’t like it)... Thanks for giving our game a shot! It really means a lot to us. Dear Brother was a Summer project. For those of us who worked on it, it was an opportunity to test our skills, and to get something out there. We’ve learned a lot since finishing this game and, while we don’t have any plans to add new content, there were a number of issues we wanted to address… So, we did just that! What better time to fix up the game then with a small anniversary update? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New features: Controller support 7 more Steam achievements Changes: We updated the movement system! Moving around should feel a little better now The crow has been moved 1 tile to the right for… reasons Memento C no longer requires you to have Memento B in your inventory (but you will still need Memento A) Added some additional examine text Bug Fixes: The Missing Fragment item no longer reappears in the center of the hedge maze after acquiring the Knife item The Red Handy is no longer a jerk that ignores you if you don’t have alcohol in your possession Some players managed to walk around the house with the number combination window still on the screen. This shouldn’t be possible anymore On a similar note, Audrey can no longer sneakily move around between dialogue boxes The Crow no longer repeats its dialogue if you exit and re-enter the front yard after ignoring it After some back and forth with the delivery company, the wine racks in the basement are now properly lined with wine bottles like the examine text says they are Aside from the above, some things were changed in the background to hopefully prevent weird text window...
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• Patch Notes·13 Aug 2021Official

  Update Notes For Aug 13

  Corrected some dialogue errors
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