Faraway Proximity

About

You’re a book hunter tracking misplaced stories across shifting realities. In this third-person puzzle game, you navigate surreal environments to retrieve books others can’t access. Each level tasks you with solving environmental challenges to unlock hidden volumes. The puzzles range from spatial rearrangements to logic tests, with the books themselves containing riddles that expand the world. Progress by balancing exploration and interpretation as you piece together the lore of each dimension. The game’s standout is its layered storytelling. Every recovered book adds context to the abstract entities populating the levels, slowly revealing why these texts vanish. The art style leans into minimalist surrealism, with each reality visually distinct yet thematically linked. Studio CloudScape’s focus on quiet discovery over action creates a meditative pace. Released in March 2023, it runs on PC and Linux, offering a self-contained single-player experience that leans into mystery more than spectacle.

Storyline

In this side of the universe, books go missing all the time and the owners are (usually) forbidden to retrieve them. You are a famous book-seeker that has been contacted to recover another set of misplaced books. While traveling through different versions of a reality built by your gracious hosts, learn about the places you visit, the abstract beings you encounter and what the books really mean.