These Heavenly Bodies

About These Heavenly Bodies

These Heavenly Bodies is a tiny horror game by ToothandClaw, made in Unity for the LOWREZJAM 2024, a jam where games must run at 64 by 64 pixels; its maker did not finish it in time for the jam and released it afterwards. It plays free in the browser on itch.io, with a mouse or a touchscreen, and takes 5 to 10 minutes.

A lab has obtained three statues from the excavation of an ancient site. Scans of the statues indicate preserved bodies within. You click your way through the lab's rooms and its scanner, looking at what each statue holds.

The low resolution works in its favour: the blocky scans show stripped muscle and bone, a winged figure smeared with red, and a face glowing red out of black, and the eye fills in the rest. Players call it short, weird and grotesque, say they grew more unnerved as they went, and note its religious themes of sin and a surprising last part. One thanks it for not using jump scares.

It suits players who like very short, strange horror with a striking look, and religious dread such as Faith or Gray Dawn.

How to play These Heavenly Bodies

1. Open the itch.io page and play in the browser.
2. Click or tap to move through the lab and look closer at things.
3. Examine the scans of each statue to see what is inside.
4. Follow it through to the end; it takes 5 to 10 minutes.

Tips

• Play in fullscreen; at 64x64 pixels the details are small.
• Take your time over each scan; the story is in what they show.
• There are no jump scares, so it is safe to play late at night.

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