Deep Rest

About

Deep Rest is a single player adventure horror game where you control a lost girl trapped in the shifting forest of Deadwood. After her mother falls into an unexplained coma, the protagonist attempts suicide but wakes up in a purgatory loop instead. The gameplay relies on point and click interactions to explore a changing world filled with strange entities. You will use time travel and draw sigils to solve puzzles while uncovering the truth behind your mother's condition and your own death. Every choice you make can dramatically alter the story path, forcing you to confront difficult emotions and mental health struggles head on. The game stands out for how it weaves psychological themes into its mechanics rather than just using them as background flavor. Players navigate a surreal environment where the forest itself seems to react to their internal state. Community feedback often highlights the heavy emotional weight of the narrative and the way time travel is used to reveal past events in unexpected ways. Aza Game Studio has built a story that asks players to question their actions within the loop rather than simply finding a quick escape. It feels like a personal investigation where solving the mystery requires facing painful truths about yourself and your family history.

Storyline

You play a lost girl, which discovers her mother has gone into deep coma for unknown reasons. Upon discovering the horrific news, you decide to end you're own life. But when you wake up, you are faced with the purgatory world of Deadwood. Engulfed by the mysterious forest that keeps changing shape and form, you soon realize its a dead end. Overwhelmed by the journey, that challenges every emotion, life experience's & mental illness you suffer from. You encounter strange characters & entities, which you later get to decide the fate of. As you learn of your newfound time travel abilities in this world. Figure out why you are stuck here in a loop, solve the mystery of what really happened to your mother. Did you kill yourself for nothing?