PsychoCycle

Made for Behaviour Interactive Game Jam 2025. This year's theme: "If you can't see it, it doesn't exist!"

Story:

In this world, unseen emotions don’t just get forgotten — they vanish.

Unprocessed memories, suppressed feelings, repressed trauma — when they’re not acknowledged, they cease to exist. People become hollow. Null. Void. Undefined. NaN.

Vera Euphrosyne is a psychic who can enter the minds of others, slipping into surreal, distorted mindscapes built from memory, and fractured identity. Within these spaces, negative emotions have gained sentience, becoming color-coded manifestations of the person’s inner turmoil.

Each level represents a different person's mind-scape — warped by trauma, mental  illness, suppressed emotion, and all sorts of psychosis. Vera’s goal is to remove toxic emotional manifestations, helping these people reconnect with the parts of themselves they've lost, or buried.

The twist? The deeper Vera goes into these minds, the blurrier the line between her own issues and those of her subjects becomes.

Gameplay:

Battle waves of different emotional enemies (represented by varying colors), and rack up the highest score. Only the enemies corresponding to the level's color will attack you with their unique abilities, but be careful! You have to remember the locations of previous enemies if you don't want to get cornered with no escape.

Red - Rage
Blue - Melancholy
Green - Envy
Yellow - Shock
Black - Despair

Controls:

WASD                       - Move
Shift / Spacebar     - Dash
Left click                   - Fire

Left Stick                  - Move
Left Trigger              - Dash
Right Trigger            - Fire

Dev Team:

KittenWrecker - Programmer
unholyscreams - Programmer
kindaokev - Artist
uSEXYbeast - Programmer
Quang - Music