A small cloaked android walks along a pale stone bridge through a vast hall of white towers and carved masks, lit by cold haze.

A game by DeadSue

NULL EDEN

Paradise was never meant to last.

Genre: Atmospheric sci-fi action adventure
Engine: Unreal Engine 5.8
Status: In development

01 — The World

The people are gone. The machines stayed.

For decades they kept the city running: evacuation signals, safety lights, warm floors in homes no one returns to. Then, slowly, they began to do things no one had asked for.

They tie ribbons to pipes. They give names to broken valves. They plant flowers outside the registry. A service android is sent to silence a malfunction. Her instructions are clear. What she hears is not.

Concept artSuspended Terraces
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Monumental silence
Architecture built for crowds that never came back. Bridges, towers and suspended terraces stretch further than a single figure can cross in a day.
Concept artJade Garden
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Ruins that grow
Ceramic, still water and gardens no one designed. Life returns locally, in corners and cracks, and it does not ask the archive for permission.
Concept artResidential Terraces
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Machines at work
Copper lungs, service lamps, workshops of brass horns. Every district has a routine you can watch long before you understand who it is for.

“Every repair makes the city look more correct.”

02 — Gameplay

Hear. Locate. Understand. Respond.

Sound is a physical force in NULL EDEN. Every acoustic object has a visible source, and every action leaves a mark on the space around it.

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Exploration

Staged 3/4, side and top-down cameras frame monumental spaces. Each district has a machine routine you first observe working, and can later disrupt.

Top-down view of a white platform in the sky; the heroine faces a machine opponent across a clean stone floor.

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Combat

Musical combat without a forced rhythm game. Attacks are telegraphed in light and shape. You can always dodge; a precise deflection is a reward, not a requirement.

Two large copper bowls of water sit in a twilight hall beneath an old tree growing through iron scaffolding.

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Puzzles

Source, mirror, receiver, gate. The whole chain is visible at once, so you read cause and effect in the architecture. A mistake resets only the local puzzle.

A flooded greenhouse hall with two copper bowls connected by walkways over dark water.

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Consequence

When a voice is silenced, something stops working: care, protection, warmth. The result is shown in the world, not in a menu, and you see who it affected.

Readable without sound

Amber pulseA warm ring of light. Dodge or deflect.
Dark shockwaveA wide wave with a sharp front. Move, don't parry.
Blue resonanceHer tuning fork answering. Activate, counter.
SilenceA voice and a mechanism fading. A new route opens.

Frames shown are concept art made for the design document, not in-engine footage.

UE 5.8 · 21:9First Unreal Engine 5.8 CaptureReserved for the first in-engine frame from the greybox build.

In-engineFirst Unreal Engine 5.8 Capture

Visual exploration

Gameplay & locations — a possible direction

AI-generated visual concepts exploring the art direction. These are not in-engine screenshots, finished levels or a promise of final mechanics.

Four concept scenes with a ceramic android: copper acoustic mirrors over a void, an amber enemy attack ring, monumental machine terraces, and water-filled conservatory walkways. — 01 Acoustic puzzle · 02 Combat readability · 03 Machine quarter · 04 Flooded conservatory

03 — Characters & Entities

Those who remained

Androids, caretakers, guardians and things that grew on their own. Designs are work in progress.

Portrait of a pale ceramic android woman with long dark braided hair and a coral camellia blooming over her left eye.

Heroine

The Heroine

Service android

A service android who believes the right action is the one in the instructions. She carries a twin-pronged tuning fork that hears, reflects and binds sound. A small camellia grows beside one eye.

WIP · 1:1TaktConcept art in progress

Companion