Mystery of the Sleeping Castle

The Mystery of the Sleeping Castle is a narrative detective game in the style of Case of the Golden Idol and Return of the Obra Dinn, but pinker, more fairytale, and EVERYBODY LIVES! (well, mostly) Make your way through the castle, observe clues and make deductions to solve puzzles, identify the residents, and ultimately release the castle from slumber

Please note this is a concept/demo made for The Case of the Thinky Game Jam and not all functionality may be fully implemented. We encourage you to solve any bugged puzzles with pen and paper! Solutions available as a PDF if you get stuck. 

We are continuing to work on the game, please see our retrospective dev log for full details! 

**Repeat players can seek the blessing of the critter crew in the lower left corner of the first scene to unlock all clues.

Technical Notes

WARNING: This game currently runs very poorly if played in-browser on a MacOS machine due to a known issue with Godot/Chromium/MacOS/SharedArrayBuffers. Hopefully Google will put out a fix soon. 

Please use our new Mac version as of 1/5/24! Follow official instructions from Godot to bypass the MacOS gatekeeper security settings to run it. 

Team

The Mystery of the Sleeping Castle was created by Andy Walton (puzzles, art, story), Henry Walton (programming), Pete Cavillo (story), and Petriform (music). 

Used free assets/stock images from vectorstock.com (edited and used alongside original assets by Andy) 

Special thanks to the Esoteric Gaming Crew for playtesting for us!!