NEITHER

Neither is an atmospheric 2D platformer about a world trapped between light and darkness — and about someone who chose neither side.

You play as Lumen, a being with a burning lantern instead of a head. His light cuts through the darkness of a vast factory and keeps the Shadows crawling from the corners from getting too close.

But the main character can change his form. In his dark form, his light goes out — and that is when the Glimmers emerge from hiding: fragments of light convinced that only they have the right to exist. What protects you from one threat makes you vulnerable to another, and every step becomes a choice of who you need to be in that exact moment.

Between battles, you will solve puzzles built around the factory’s machinery: levers, valves, lasers, electromagnets, waterfalls that must be blocked to move forward, fireflies that Lumen releases from his lantern and calls back, and a grappling hook based on rope physics. And the darkness is never truly empty.

The farther Lumen goes, the harder it becomes to believe that anyone here is completely right or completely wrong.

P.S. This is a demo version — a playable slice that shows only part of what we have planned. Much of the combat, puzzles, and story is still ahead. The game was developed by a small student team of three people with no prior game development experience. It was created as a university project, and we hope to keep developing it further. The original version of the game was developed in Russian.