Dirge of the Sleeping Bell

by jiffy

co-authored: @mollyfawcett

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.21

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.34

Dirge of the sleeping bell is a first person puzzle game where you explore a mysterious bell tower in the middle of the ocean and solve a number of supernatural puzzles.

While the game has a dark & moody atmosphere, the game does not contain any jumpscares.

Controls

Movement: WASD

Interact: E

Advance Text/UI: Left Mouse Button

Installation Instructions

1. Download the .ZIP file below.
2. Extract all of the contents of the .ZIP file.
3. Run LD58.exe

Screenshots:

Credits

Jake Butfiloski (Jiffy)

Molly Fawcett

Comments19

b0guslaw6 Oct 2025, 22:36

What an accomplishment. A properly well done puzzle game in such a short time is an amazing achievement. I love it!

Jalimco Beach6 Oct 2025, 22:38

Love the use of audio!

MorePixels7 Oct 2025, 02:17

Really good! The puzzles were a bit uncertain in places, but it's incredible for the time limit! Well done!

Jiffyauthor7 Oct 2025, 03:13

@morepixels Thank you! Very fair, balancing the difficulty of the puzzles was probably the hardest part. Glad you still enjoyed :)

YibiRabbit0077 Oct 2025, 03:57

The lights kept flickering, making it uncomfortable for me to see.
👻The audio is pretty good, I like the piano in it.

Jiffyauthor7 Oct 2025, 04:05

@yibirabbit007 oh no! Must be hardware related, sorry to hear you had graphical issues

YibiRabbit0077 Oct 2025, 04:10

@jiffy I am wondering if fixing the lighting on the player, instead of moving it back and forth, could reduce this sense of discomfort?
There is no problem with the hardware; it is caused by the in-game lighting.

Threeli7 Oct 2025, 05:45

Not just being out here, dropping a doppler effect for the intro... Like @jalimco-beach said, great work in the audio department. Feels like something I'd keep playing for a while. Interesting, but never punishing. Great work!

tardis2snej7 Oct 2025, 10:55

The sound quest is amazing, and the one with the map got me thinking (no pun intended...)

lizardinblizzard8 Oct 2025, 06:15

Nice puzzles and great ideas

ACartlidge9 Oct 2025, 00:09

So cool! Cool writing, awesome vibe, interesting puzzles, just really nicely done!

Eugenik9 Oct 2025, 06:35

I love that art style and gameplay!.

WetBurritoSupreme9 Oct 2025, 18:09

Really well done, taking on a puzzle and writing heavy game is something I always want to try but am too nervous to attempt! Great job!

6Knowledge10 Oct 2025, 11:22

The light felt a bit too weak to navigate the map, even for a dark game. I moved against many of the walls to navigate around. Somehow I managed to brute force the bells at the beginning by playing random notes, that was weirdly funny to me. Puzzle games are not really my cup of tea so I had to cut it short before I got to the end, but the atmosphere was extremely well done.

EricNS10 Oct 2025, 16:51

Absolute peak, if you could find a way to expand the story i would genuinely buy it, it's a really great experience

Bea10 Oct 2025, 17:41

This was really lovely! I liked the simple look at sound, it all really came together into a nice mood:3

Profugo Barbatus12 Oct 2025, 05:55

Found the puzzles a bit difficult at times, but I am also a bit sleep deprived so that's probably on me - Didn't finish as a result, but not out of frustration, just out of acknowledgement that I'm the problem. Regardless, I liked the use of sound in the first puzzle, and found the second room ones interesting, promised a lot of depth. Good stuff for a jam!

zdmajor712 Oct 2025, 18:02

This is a magnificent game, and I only had time to play the first two levels of it. But I will go back and finish it, because it made me want to play it fully, not just evaluate it

Jiffyauthor12 Oct 2025, 21:26

@zdmajor7 thank you so much 😭😭ur comment made my day

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