Fading Edge

In the darkness, breathing is your only control.

Fading Edge is a side-scrolling adventure controlled by your breath. Inhale to slow your steps; exhale to run faster — but every breath awakens nightmares deeper below.

▎Breath Is Life and Death
Every inhale and exhale directly affects your movement speed. Pressure builds in the dark — when it peaks, nightmares will tear through your last three drops of blood.

▎Nightmares Show No Mercy
Stationary ones, stalkers, hunters, red ones — they are not level decoration, but hunters that think. Some dodge your gaze, some predict your path, some cannot be dispelled at all.

▎Echoes Are the Only Salvation
Echo shards lie scattered across the abyss. Touch them — pressure resets, nightmares dissolve. But peace never lasts. Deeper down, more await.

▎Four Abysses, Four Kinds of Forgetting
Forgetting (black and white), Obsession (cold blue), Letting Go (warm white), Origin (warm gold) — every abyss is a ruin of memory. The deeper you go, the lonelier it becomes.

▎A Dream Within a Dream
Sometimes a swirling black hole appears in the dark. Step inside — another world awaits. Piece together the shards, reclaim the memories stolen from you... or be trapped in the dream forever.

· High-contrast black-and-white hand-drawn style with rough brushstrokes
· Unique breath-based controls at the core
· Three drops of blood — death means starting over. Respect the dark.
· Fragmented storytelling — a treasure for collectors on a second playthrough

Stop breathing... and you die.