Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum

About Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum

Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum is a remaster of Pocket Mirror, a free RPG Maker horror game AstralShift released in 2016. AstralShift made it with VisuStella, and KOMODO published it on Steam for Windows and macOS in May 2023, with upgraded visuals, 2D animated scenes, new features and a new ending. Versions for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch followed on 21 October 2026.

You play a young girl who wakes in a strange and eerie mansion with no memories and nothing but a golden pocket mirror, which she must never let go of. Moving through top-down pixel-art rooms, she explores twisted corridors, a night-time rose garden, a ballroom and stranger places beyond, and meets girls in frilly gothic dress, among them the maid Harpae, Fleta and Lisette. Each seems to know more about her than she does, and none will say.

Play is exploration and puzzle-solving in the manner of RPG Maker horror games like The Witch's House: find items, open the way forward and talk to everyone. The colours are rich and the art cute, and that is the trick: the store warns that the game is not for the nervous, with graphic horror, blood and brutal deaths, and its screenshots show blood trails across a circus tent and a bloodied dining table. Your choices lead down different paths to several endings.

The story is told indirectly and rarely spells things out. Siliconera's review found that the early areas only fall into place on a second playthrough, and that some routes never explain the girl's past at all, which is why most players go round more than once. A new game plus, added in this version, lets you read developer diaries about the remaster.

It suits players who love story-led RPG Maker horror and gothic fairy-tale looks, and who do not mind piecing a story together themselves.

How to play Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum

1. Buy it on Steam for Windows or macOS, on the PlayStation Store for PS4 and PS5, or on the Nintendo eShop for Switch.
2. Move the girl around the mansion and examine everything to find items and clues.
3. Use the items you collect to solve the puzzles that open new rooms.
4. Talk to the girls you meet; what you say and do shapes the path you take.
5. Save often, then replay to see the other endings.

Tips

• Check every corner of a room; small items are easy to miss on the dark maps.
• Save before opening anything that looks dangerous.
• Talk to characters more than once; they often say new things after events.
• Expect the story to make more sense on a second run; the early areas gain meaning once you know where it is going.
• In new game plus, talk to the blue pumpkins to read the developers' diaries about the remaster.

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