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Project Rot
Team MIST · Published by Team MIST
Content notice: Project Rot's narrative stems from Nicole's experience after her mom passed away at a young age. Our game deals with every emotion she went through following that, and the symbolic representations of her struggles.
Last updated 8 Oct 2026
Players will interact with their environment, talk to unique characters, and battle in real-time against their own emotions. Dive into the mind of a younger Nicole as she battles to situate herself in the Other-World whilst learning to cope with the separation from her Mom.
Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG · 2026 · More free games
Explore and battle within Project Rot, an action-adventure RPG where you navigate the mind of a younger Nicole. Interact with unique characters and face your emotions as she learns to cope with separation in the Other-World.
About this game
An adventure, real-time strategy horror game. Take on the role of young Nicole as she symbolically faces the experience of losing her mom. Navigate atmosphere rich environments full of clever and engaging puzzles and enemies.
Simultaneous Combat
Fight various enemies in real time combat, hit the correct buttons as they appear when you perform actions. Enemies will throw off your normal action patterns as their emotions will affect your attacks!
Combine items of varying rarities to create powerful synergies to defeat enemies as they become exponentially harder as your journey goes on
Enemies won't wait for you to take your action, in this simultaneous combat enemies attack on a timer. Make quick decisions in order to defeat your foe, or meet a quick demise.
Losing a combat won't end your run, wake up in the local town and buy new items or unlock new skills to become even more powerful than before!
Environment Puzzles & Quests
Explore the The Other World and search your environment for hints and answers to the puzzles you will encounter along the hero's journey. Solve puzzles to lower bridges, help NPCs in need, return missing items and more!
Enhance Royal Road Village
Help townsfolk with their small favors and see the town and people change as you do.
Work with townsperson Matt to build your own well, help purify water and farm on his land as he conducts research. Gather herbs for teahouse owner Chai and help them create new tea recipes.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32bit/64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Microsoft Windows 10 (32bit/64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i6
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Direct X 10
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
An Update on Our Full Release
Project Rot - Updated DemoHey everyone!! We're making this post to address the date of our final release. Our current demo states our full release will take place August 31st. Unfortunately our release date will be postponed significantly. Our team has made this decision to create the full rot experience for our players and ensure our game is not rushed. To make up for this we're working hard to create an update for our current demo. Be sure to look out for this within the next week! This update contains our new combat design, more characters, new cinematics in our first gameplay level "The Shadowed Woods", peaceful ocarina melodies and more time in the Wizard Man's tubular tower. The next thing to look forward to will be our Steam Next Fest update, where players will be able to explore some areas in Royal Road Village!Best, Nicole M. (Team Mist)Read full article on Community Announcements (nicolemellor743)
