Run from The Night In Grey’s wolves–and trauma

What would you do in this outlandish scenario? While running from wolves, you find a girl just hanging out in an abandoned cabin. For the protagonist of dark thriller The Night is Grey, he decides to help her, but not everything is as it seems. 

The Night is Grey follows Graham, a man who is fleeing from strange wolves who won’t let up the chase. He comes across an abandoned cabin in the woods, but when opening the door, he’s met with the end of a gun—held by a little girl named Hannah. Now he must take the girl with him if she is to survive. 

A point-and-click adventure that hopes to bring back beloved aspects of the genre, The Night Is Grey is painstakingly hand-drawn in twelve frames per second. With over 50 different locations with animated backgrounds, the art style is nostalgic and dark. The score is also a studio-recorded original soundtrack played by actual musicians. Care has been put into the quality of the presentation, and coupled with unexpected plot twists and themes of past trauma and child abuse, The Night is Grey could be one of the most memorable, if not intimate games in recent memory.

The demo reveals classic elements like calm puzzle-solving, banter and dialogue between Hannah and Graham, along with choice interactions with the environment. Having watched the demo and trailer, both end on a cliffhanger, a wolf sprouting a bloody human arm from its mouth—with the mystery behind this macabre sight and Hannah’s backstory still remaining to be discovered.

The demo is available for free, with The Night is Grey coming to Steam later this year.