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Helianthus

Selene Games · Published by Selene Games · Official site ↗

Content notice: This game features mature content, including psychological horror, child suffering from unethical experiments, references to self-harm, emotional trauma, graphic violence, disturbing creature designs, and themes of guilt, loss, and mental deterioration.

Last updated 9 Oct 2026

Horror, tension, and vulnerability. Helianthus is a third-person survival horror experience set in 1974 Texas. Trapped inside a motel scarred by biological trauma, you must explore carefully, survive the unknown, and find a way out before it is too late.

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Embark on a tense survival adventure as you explore a haunted Texas motel in 1974. Navigate through eerie corridors, facing unexpected threats, and unravel the mysteries that await inside this indie horror experience by Selene Games.

About this game

Helianthus is a third-person narrative survival horror game focused on exploration, resource management, environmental puzzles, and surviving against an relentless threat.

Explore an isolated motel filled with secrets, manage your flashlight's battery, search for scarce resources, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind a series of experiments that have twisted everything they touch.

If you enjoy games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, The Last of Us, or Amnesia: The Bunker, you'll find an experience built around tension, exploration, and psychological horror.

Explore the Amberhusk Motel

Search abandoned rooms, dark hallways, and hidden areas while uncovering documents, key items, maps, and fragments of a story marked by failed experiments and unexplained disappearances.

Survival and Resource Management

Your flashlight is your most important tool. Manage its battery using charging stations scattered throughout the motel. Darkness limits your ability to detect threats, resources, and safe paths.

A Constant Threat

A creature stalks the halls of Amberhusk. Hide, evade danger, and use every resource wisely. Ammunition is limited, and every shot may bring unexpected consequences.

Environmental Puzzles

Solve puzzles, unlock new routes, and connect clues hidden throughout the environment to progress through a mystery-filled story.

Narrative Horror

Uncover the motel's secrets through documents, objects, recordings, and encounters with characters who know more than they appear to.

Story

Nick, a young orphan accustomed to surviving on his own, is being transported to the local police station when an accident forces an unexpected stop at the isolated Amberhusk Motel.

What seems like a routine interruption quickly becomes a nightmare.

Inside the motel, something has altered human biology and transformed the environment into a grotesque version of itself. As Nick searches for answers, he meets Sophie, a young girl who appears to be alive against all logic and asks for help finding her brother.

Each new clue reveals fragments of a far more disturbing truth. A mysterious presence seems to be spreading throughout the motel, corrupting everything it touches.

And at the center of it all, one symbol keeps appearing:

a sunflower.

System Requirements

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Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 11 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • Memory: 16384 MB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB) / AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (6GB)
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 60000 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Compatible con DirectX
  • VR Support: No compatible
  • Additional Notes: Requires SSD. 1080p / Low settings / 30 FPS target.

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 11 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i7-12700 / AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
  • Memory: 32768 MB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (8GB) / AMD Radeon RX 6800 (16GB)
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 60000 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Compatible con DirectX
  • VR Support: No compatible
  • Additional Notes: Recommended SSD. 1080p / High settings / 60 FPS target.

Supported Languages

English*, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, German, Portuguese - Brazil
*languages with full audio support

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