HyperarousalAion Interactive

Hyperarousal · Narrative psychological horror

Wake.
Dream.

Garlo lives in the present. In dreams, he relives the lives of his ancestors across centuries of Valcamonica. Two timelines. One inheritance that refuses to remain buried.

The Hyperarousal System

Perception is the mechanic. The Signal Layer guides you; the Noise Layer corrupts what you see. Use breath as an anchor and learn to tell what is real from what only feels real.

GenrePsychological horrorPlayersSingle playerPlatformPC · Steam
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Chapter 0 · Free prologue

The first
ancestral dream.

A therapy session opens the threshold. Beyond it waits an older Valcamonica: a winter settlement, a horned presence, and a ritual of blood and fire. The prologue introduces the world, its characters and the core mechanics.

Free on Steam · Late August 2026

Not a god. Not only an animal.

A dark horned figure emerging against a deep red field
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It waits where the path becomes uncertain.

The valley · Before Rome

No single story survived.
Only marks.

During the Iron Age, the communities later known as the Camunni lived among high passes, forests and metal-bearing mountains. Their world survives in settlements, burials, places of work and worship, and in signs cut into stone.

I

The rocks

More than 140,000 figures. Eight thousand years of gestures.

Deer hunts, duels, fields and geometric forms appear across both sides of the valley. Some can be named. Their meaning cannot.

II

The fire

The mountain was opened. Metal came out.

Mining and metallurgy shaped work in the valley. In the dream, fire is more than a tool: it is the final passage of the ritual.

III

The deer

An animal, a guide, an offering.

Deer hunting is carved into the rock. Hyperarousal turns that surviving image into a presence that watches and leads.

Module 0

What are you willing
to sacrifice?

Enter the first ancestral dream. Every path demands a price.

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