PABULUM SUM

Unleashing in 2027

PABULUM SUM is a top-down adventure game starring a young mute girl who gets trapped underground when she survives a strange train crash.

Will she find out what happened and make it out alive?

Features:

• Virtual Boy Inspired Graphics! Unlike most art styles inspired by retro games, PABULUM SUM has been created using the colour palette of Nintendo's infamous Virtual Boy. Enjoy seeing the horrors that await the little girl in three shades of red!
• Classic Adventure Game Design! Taking inspiration from classic adventure games, PABULUM SUM focuses on having the player progress through puzzles and exploration.
• Unique Conversation Scenes! While our lead is mute, she can still meet and communicate with other people. All conversations are presented through questions that the little girl can respond to without speaking.

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31/10/2025 - Name Change

Back in 2015, we developed a short demo for a horror game called Unkindness. Last year we picked that demo back up to finish the originally intended scope for the project. Today we want to let you all know that the project has changed its name.

Unkindness is now known as... PABULUM SUM.

The reason for this is two-fold. The name "Unkindness" was thematically sound in the early stages of development but has since slid away from what the game became. We also felt that we had to follow our own criticism of video games, which is that there's too many single word titles in the industry.

So the game has now become PABULUM SUM, which both fits thematically with the game and is a unique title

PABULUM SUM still remains the same concept. A horror game presented entirely in red monochrome, like a Virtual Boy game. It follows an unnamed mute girl who finds herself trapped in a horrific situation following a train tunnel crash, with a consuming entity breaking its way through.

As of now, PABULUM SUM does not have a release date. We had hoped to have it out for Halloween 2026, but that is simply not realistic.

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31/10/2025 - 10th Anniversary Update!

Hello everyone, Andrea here. On October 31st 2025 Unkindness celebrated its 10th anniversary. We took this opportunity to revisit the game on stream and also showed content developed for the full version of the game before it went into development hell.

We're happy to announce now that the game is back in development, please look forward to this tale of good people found in unkind situations...

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31/10/2015 - Asylum Jam 2015 Demo

Unkindness started development during Asylum Jam 2015 and a free demo was released for said game jam. This demo is an early concept build that I built in 48 hours and shows off the start of the game.

Please check out the demo if you're interested!

Demo Release Date: October 31 2015