Depth Self - A narrative game
A short narrative puzzle game about memory, guilt... and digging through files.
Laura can’t remember.
Not this part of her life. Not what happened. Not why it still hurts.
Using a device called the Depth-Self, you’ll explore the forgotten corners of her mind—through images, voices, and strange documents scattered across a mysterious interface.
Click. Drag. Dig.
The truth is somewhere in there.
It’s a game that messes a bit with your head—and a bit with your desktop.
🧠 Narrative-focused
🖱️ Puzzle through files and fragments
⏳ Short, emotional, and personal
🕹️ How to Play
Depth Self plays with your files—literally.
When the game starts, it creates a folder filled with strange files. Your goal is to explore and interact with them to unlock pieces of Laura’s memory.
Load .jpp files in-game and reassemble them like puzzles.
Complete them to reveal .jpng images containing hidden clues.
Watch for the “writing” indicator—this means new data is being saved to the folder. Something just changed.
Once you’ve gathered enough clues, you’ll be able to run the DepthSelf.brain program and dive deeper
⚠️ Content Warning
Depth Self deals with themes of emotional trauma and many more. Some moments may be emotionally intense or unsettling.
Take your time. Step away if needed.
Laura can’t remember.
Not this part of her life. Not what happened. Not why it still hurts.
Using a device called the Depth-Self, you’ll explore the forgotten corners of her mind—through images, voices, and strange documents scattered across a mysterious interface.
Click. Drag. Dig.
The truth is somewhere in there.
It’s a game that messes a bit with your head—and a bit with your desktop.
🧠 Narrative-focused
🖱️ Puzzle through files and fragments
⏳ Short, emotional, and personal
🕹️ How to Play
Depth Self plays with your files—literally.
When the game starts, it creates a folder filled with strange files. Your goal is to explore and interact with them to unlock pieces of Laura’s memory.
Load .jpp files in-game and reassemble them like puzzles.
Complete them to reveal .jpng images containing hidden clues.
Watch for the “writing” indicator—this means new data is being saved to the folder. Something just changed.
Once you’ve gathered enough clues, you’ll be able to run the DepthSelf.brain program and dive deeper
⚠️ Content Warning
Depth Self deals with themes of emotional trauma and many more. Some moments may be emotionally intense or unsettling.
Take your time. Step away if needed.
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UPD: as i was asked, i place this link to the solutions for this nice developers ^_^
https://flokami.itch.io/depth-self
We've uploaded a guide on the itch page containing the solution, so can you please edit your comment to link to the itch page guide instead of giving it here ?
Thank you much !
I hope you can fix it as I really want to give it another try but it was still a cool experience already
The window usage and file editing remind me of 'One Shot' - if anyone wants to check out games with a similarly deep use of your PC.
With a little help from the guide, I did get to the end (I was trying to create the file in the wrong folder) - but still uncertain if the 'last 3' jpngs are openable?
Either way - fantastic stuff, great story - a truly unique and amazing artistic work!
NBD, just something to consider
It can be a bit hard to have the good angle sometimes but it exist just try to move a bit around.
Please tell us if that helped you or if you need more help (or maybe a bug report) feel free to contact me at mail at [email protected].
Very strange for the permissions things, none of us had a similar case. Have you opened the game with elevated privileges xD ?
gg!!
If you have any tips on how to work around this or if you release a version with a fix, I'd love to come back to play and rate!
- I had a problem solving the first puzzle, I might have accidentally resized the window while trying to move it (you should probably make them non resizable), the bottom-right window's top border was green, but top-right window's bottom border was not and I couldn't get them them both green at the same time, I could only have 7/8 green borders. I restarted the game and had the same problem and fixed it by resizing the window.
- Accessing the ending was too difficult, I went to the guide but still took me a long time to figure it out. I have read the clues, but didn't think of checking them again, and even with them I still wouldn't have come up with the solution to it on my own, and it feels really bad to have put in a lot of effort into solving it, getting to the interesting part and then having access to it blocked.