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Shattered Mirror · Published by Shattered Mirror
Mixed — 56% positive (39 reviews) · 17 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
The Apartment is a small psychological thriller. Interesting mix of first person detective adventure game, puzzle solving, psychological horror and FPS action, all tied together with dark and heavy story where lines between reality and nightmare have no meaning anymore.
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Action, Adventure, Indie · 2018 · More under £5 games
Embark on a tense journey through The Apartment, where every corner conceals both puzzles and peril. Navigate the blurred lines between truth and nightmare in this gripping mix of adventure and horror from Shattered Mirror.
About this game
The Apartment - Psychological Thriller Game
The Apartment is bringing together quite unique mix of genres. Combination of first person detective action-adventure game, psychological horror with some interesting puzzles and action-packed FPS finale, all tied together with dark and heavy story. It is not a pure horror and it's not just a story adventure either.The Investigation
As detective James Sachs, you lead the investigation of several murders in your area. Young girls were found dead, arranged and with strange injuries that don't make any sense. It's up to you to find out who these girls were. Why were they killed. And find the murderer before he strikes again and solve the case. Case that might prove to be more difficult and challenging than you ever imagined.Main gameplay of the action-adventure part focuses on detective work - exploring crime scenes, finding evidence, connecting clues, completing simple word puzzles or physics puzzles and piece together the whole story.
Not all evidence on the crime scene is crucial for finding the killer. There is also a lot of wrong choices you can make, wrong questions you can ask. So you will need to pay attention and think about your actions. Before your investigation ends up in a dead end.
The Nightmare
Horror part of The Apartment is focused more on psychological horror, rather than jumpscares or survival horror. There is no monster hunting you down, there is no threat that you can see (but don't worry, there is still lot of way you can die in this game). The main purpose is to create unsettling and eerie atmosphere and make the player as uncomfortable and creeped out as possible. Why? What is your goal? Survive? Win? Escape? No matter what is happening, you can only be certain of one thing now - nothing makes sense anymore.There is no clear line between "investigation" and "horror" parts. You can never tell what is waiting around the next corner. Both worlds of reality and nightmare are slowly fusing together. But is there even such a thing as reality anymore?
The Apartment is very diverse in its environments. Don't expect single, unchanging surroundings. This game is switching scenes and environments faster than you would imagine. Always trying to keep one step ahead of the player.
Path forward is often blocked with simple, yet interesting puzzles. Word puzzles, number puzzles, simple physics stuff, but also some play with light and shadows.
Total gameplay time is 4,5 - 5,5 hours and the main story culminates in grand, action-packed finale.
NOTE: Solving puzzles is big part of the game, so be prepared for that.
Basic understanding of English might be required for some of the puzzles, so keep that in mind.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10, 64-bits
- Processor: Intel Core i3-530
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB VRAM, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon HD 4870
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 19 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Recommended
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10, 64-bits
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1.5GB VRAM, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 / ATI Radeon HD 7850
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 19 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Supported Languages
English*
*languages with full audio support
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Demo
Short Demo for the game has been added. It is not a perfect copy of the main game as some parts of the game were changed to better represent all the different aspects and features in such a short demo. About a third of this demo are parts from the full game exactly as they are, about a third are scenes from the full game only slightly changed or cut short and third are parts created specifically for this demo. This demo includes detective adventure gameplay, short part of the crime solving gameplay, few simple puzzles, good portion of psychological horror and a bit of more "action" focused parts, while still maintaining eerie and unsettling atmosphere throughout. All of it represented in some way in the main game as well. Demo should give you good idea what The Apartment game is about, what to expect or how is the game going to run on your machine while still keeping it different and not spoiling too much in case you actually want to try the full game.Read full article on Community Announcements (Shattered Mirror)Patch NotesOfficial
Optimalization Update
New Graphics Settings and fixes to ensure the game runs better and smoother, especially on older machines Added settings option for scaling resolution New Low settings for shadows and post-process Updated settings for better texture resolution scaling and shadow quality New Level Detail setting that removes unnecessary small objects, ground clutter and decals to save rendering power Fixed few bugs causing random FPS drops Updated and cleaned up static meshes that were causing some problems Lighting and shadows optimalizationRead full article on Community Announcements (Shattered Mirror)Patch NotesOfficial
Performance update
Bigger update that improves overall performance, smoother loading and unloading and helps with some of the fps drops. Updated lighting and level details Some minor texture changes Improved level loading/unloading Few changes to the scene transitions Small level design changes Fixed few bugs that were causing fps drop in certain scenes Fixed bug that was causing performance problems in the game menuRead full article on Community Announcements (Shattered Mirror)Patch NotesOfficial
Performance update
Bigger update that improves overall performance, smoother loading and unloading and helps with some of the fps drops. Updated lighting and level details Some minor texture changes Improved level loading/unloading Few changes to the scene transitions Small level design changes Fixed few bugs that were causing fps drop in certain scenes Fixed bug that was causing performance problems in the game menuRead full article on Community Announcements (Shattered Mirror)Patch NotesOfficial
Old Update from 20.2.
Achievements added New camera system - this should fix problems with the camera lag and also make all movement a lot smoother (If you still have problems with camera, make sure Vsync is not the problem) Easy mode added - if you're not here for the adventure game part, don't want to run around searching for clues or you just get stuck, you can now display hints that will highlight clues and important objects when you get near them. It affects crime scenes and most of the puzzles as well. This will not tell you how to solve the puzzles, just point you in the right direction and show you which objects in the scene are important. Fixed audio bugs Fixed collision problems Fixed rest of the bugs with character movementRead full article on Community Announcements (Shattered Mirror)
