Whisperdeep
Whisperdeep. An illustrated stone path leads through darkness to a cyan and violet portal.

Sound is sight.

In development by PortosLabs

A first-person dark fantasy roguelike where every sound reveals the world. And gives something else a way to find you.

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The dark answers.

Tap your staff. Read the echoes. Find your way through a labyrinth that fades back into darkness.

She Is the Dark. Narrated gameplay trailer.Watch on YouTube
Read the trailer narration

You keep calling it darkness. I call it home. Make a sound. I’ll show you what it touches. The walls. The water. Whatever is waiting beyond them.

You can hold the shape in your mind. You cannot hold the light. There are things down here that want to hear you. And there is me. Come closer, love.

Reveal the dark.

A tap of your staff sends an echo into the room. For a moment, the dark has edges. When they fade, remember what you saw.

Points of pale cyan light reveal a room and a distant doorway in the black labyrinth.
One echo. A room, briefly remembered. Gameplay screenshot.
A shape in the labyrinth emerges among the blue and violet echo points.
Gameplay screenshot

Be careful what hears you.

Sound can guide you through the labyrinth. It can also lead something straight to you. Put stone between you. Go quiet.

The player's remembered map traces explored passages through the darkness.
Recall map. Gameplay screenshot.

Leave something behind.

Your book remembers earlier lives. Follow their traces, learn from their mistakes, and leave a warning for whoever comes next.

An illuminated manuscript illustration of a broken world, a stone portal, and things lost to the Deep.

Everything lost
ends up down here.

From the world of Whisperdeep. Illustrated artwork.

You are not alone.

A mage. A book. A dark that swallows light.

Your echoes show you the way forward, but the world is listening too. Somewhere beyond the next wall, a voice offers guidance.

She seems very comfortable here.

“That part is mine.”

Read the voice transcript

See how it answers you? White and large is close. Blue, then fine violet, is far. Where nothing answers, it stays dark. That part is mine.