Backstage: Murdered Sleep

Overview

Backstage: murdered sleep is a 2D psychological survival horror adventure game inspired by the original luminaries of the Survival Horror genre - Resident Evil, Parasite Eve, and especially the first four Silent Hill games. It blends atmospheric exploration and simple puzzle solving with tense real-time combat and resource management.

Story

The game greatly expands the enigmatic mythology of the Backstage universe while introducing new players to the dark and twisted "world behind the world". It extrapolates the consequences and implications of the original game to a frightening new scale.

Anna Molly Grace is a 19-year-old art student at Stanford University struggling with intense sleep terrors and sleep paralysis. When she receives an invitation from the American Sleep Institute's experimental clinic on Santa Cassilda island, she has no reason to suspect the terrors in store for her, or the forces intent upon awakening something terribly real from the darkness of her mysterious dreams.

Marlowe and Chambers are modern-day witch hunters who would easily be mistaken by society for serial killers. Are these Templars madmen, or is their grisly work truly necessary to protect our world from demonic incursion? What will happen when their story finally collides with Anna's?

Characters

Jack Chambers (53) is a United States Marine Corps chaplain and veteran, a member of the Jesuit Order and the Knights Templar, inducted into a secret war against the forces of darkness.

Dr. Everett Grossman (44) is Anna's psychiatrist, present at the American Sleep clinic to oversee her sleep trial.

Christopher Marlowe (37) is Chambers' partner in their dark work.