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A short, dreamlike first-person exploration game focused on atmosphere, déjà-vu, and nostalgia. In a morphing room, you unlock new areas through environmental triggers. No combat or inventory—just mood, exploration, and interpretation in an 80s/90s nostalgia aesthetic; 30 minutes to 2 hours.

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Release Date

01 Dec, 2026

Publisher/Developer

Studio Vodka

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I Have Been Here Before? description

I Have Been Here Before? is a short, dreamy first-person exploration that trades traditional objectives for déjà-vu, nostalgia, and a quiet unease born from places that remember you wrong. It begins in a single room, a space where others pass by without stopping. It feels endlessly familiar, as if you have wandered this exact room many times, yet you know you have not. The experience unfolds like a waking dream: you explore, you sense there is more to find, and you are drawn deeper. Some spaces exist in real life, others only in the maker’s dream or in your own memory, colliding to form a world that is at once intimate and uncanny.

Key features:

  • First-person, single-player exploration centered on atmosphere rather than goals
  • Simple, tactile interactions that alter spaces and unlock new areas
  • Progression driven by environmental discovery — no inventory to manage
  • Surreal architecture with an 80s / 90s nostalgic aesthetic
  • Walk, run, look controls; interact with switches, panels, doors
  • Environmental triggers reshape or reveal parts of the level
  • Emphasis on mood, tension, and the feeling of dreamstates and déjà-vu
  • No combat or complex puzzles — meaning comes from experience and interpretation

The game guides you through layered, liminal spaces where memory and architecture blur. As you move deeper, you encounter rooms that remember you differently each time you return, inviting you to question what is real and what is imagined. The environments shift in response to your actions, revealing new corridors, hidden panels, and altered perspectives that deepen the sense of being inside a shared dream.

What you experience is as important as what you achieve. The pace invites contemplation rather than conquest, encouraging reflection on nostalgia, time, and the spaces that haunt or comfort us. Its compact scope makes it a focused, atmospheric jaunt that leaves space for interpretation and personal meaning.

Estimated playtime is approximately 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on how deeply you explore and how much you linger in memories you may not fully trust. I Have Been Here Before? is designed to be a memorable, contemplative journey that lingers long after you step back into the ordinary world.